Our bookshop Hungry Mind (now closed) was able to draw the most interesting authors in for events, and all genres, including the then fledgling graphic novel.
I agree with you on the ease of ebooks and the ridiculousness of the pricing - and for hardcovers, yes, they are expensive, and the large paperbacks are stupid (I just had to return one, you do not print the Complete Sherlock Holmes of over 1,000 pages and put it in a binding that would not really cover 300.)
But publishing itself is a crazy business, what other business would take back product it doesn't sell?
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rosecarmine
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Date: 2011-02-17 02:55 pm (UTC)I agree with you on the ease of ebooks and the ridiculousness of the pricing - and for hardcovers, yes, they are expensive, and the large paperbacks are stupid (I just had to return one, you do not print the Complete Sherlock Holmes of over 1,000 pages and put it in a binding that would not really cover 300.)
But publishing itself is a crazy business, what other business would take back product it doesn't sell?