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rynlingAnother thing I appreciate about Amazon is that they have literal tons of remaindered books in stock.
By "remaindered" books, I mean out-of-print titles that are brand new except for having a black line drawn in Sharpie across the bottom edge. I think that, back in the day, publishers used to tear the covers off of unsold books and ship them in giant crates to the author (ouch), but I guess these days they just send them to Amazon.
The really depressing thing about the fiction market is just how quickly current titles are remaindered. Like, you can have 50k followers on Twitter, and your book can appear on all the "best of" lists on the year it comes out, and it might have been longlisted for the National Book Award or whatever, but in less than five years all the unsold paperback copies will still be remaindered.
Because professional books reviews written by professional book reviewers tend to make me angry for an entire shitty rainbow of reasons, I always end up finding out about interesting books a few years after they come out in paperback. If I wanted to go through traditional channels, getting my hands on these books would be almost impossible, but Amazon has me covered.
By "remaindered" books, I mean out-of-print titles that are brand new except for having a black line drawn in Sharpie across the bottom edge. I think that, back in the day, publishers used to tear the covers off of unsold books and ship them in giant crates to the author (ouch), but I guess these days they just send them to Amazon.
The really depressing thing about the fiction market is just how quickly current titles are remaindered. Like, you can have 50k followers on Twitter, and your book can appear on all the "best of" lists on the year it comes out, and it might have been longlisted for the National Book Award or whatever, but in less than five years all the unsold paperback copies will still be remaindered.
Because professional books reviews written by professional book reviewers tend to make me angry for an entire shitty rainbow of reasons, I always end up finding out about interesting books a few years after they come out in paperback. If I wanted to go through traditional channels, getting my hands on these books would be almost impossible, but Amazon has me covered.
