Demise of the small independent bookshop.

[pacific]

Yes, I think the smaller market and transportation costs would add to the cost of books here.
Not helped by the GST.

But nothing other than abject poverty would keep me from buying a book.

[tabou]

G, my local shop can almost never even get the book I want from their distributors! It has become that bad. So I make an effort to walk in there and just buy whatever books they have for sale. And I buy used books off Amazon. Never new unless I absolutely have to. But doesn't that limit any new authors (Iike me potentially) basically to one printing and then recycling of that printing? Shannon talk about greed but if and when Tabou is ever published I doubt it will ever earn back what I've already put into it--and lost, as a matter of accounting. I am never sure if what I am doing is the right thing.

[tabou]

PS self published books by locals sold at our local shop are doing quite well, but they have to be decorating, equestrian crime (either true crime or fiction), or else ditzy beach reads basically to work. I don't live in an intellctually or artistically hungry part of the countryside. One's mircro evironment really does have a lot to do with this word of mouth aspect JW seems to have been discussing.