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I always buy the hardback edition of any new Bujold novel. I'm also trying to get all of the Pen & Des stories in print as well, but that's just for completion - I already have them all as e-books!
Just and FYI, you may want to give Baen a poke about getting your books back into bookstores. I live close to several B&N stores, and I've often recommended your books to others while browsing. (And they usually buy!) But I can't do that if they aren't there. The only ones I've seen all summer are "Penric's Progress" and "Penric's Mission" - no Vorkosigan, earlier 5 gods, or Sharing Knife books. Proabably an artifact of the pandemic messing with distribution.
@ Ursula --
No, that's just an artifact of the books being old. Brick-and-mortar bookstores having very limited shelf space, for every new title that is added an old one has to go.
Both publishers and bookstores also want what they call "sales velocity", in hopes of economies of scale kicking in. A title occupying a slot that sells 10 copies a month is vastly preferred over one that sells 1 copy every two months. Books that sit around too long are booted and their slots given to new hopefuls. (Like the two new Penric omnibuses, but they are aging out by now as well.)
Not a problem with ebooks.
Ta, L.
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I always buy the hardback edition of any new Bujold novel. I'm also trying to get all of the Pen & Des stories in print as well, but that's just for completion - I already have them all as e-books!
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Just and FYI, you may want to give Baen a poke about getting your books back into bookstores. I live close to several B&N stores, and I've often recommended your books to others while browsing. (And they usually buy!) But I can't do that if they aren't there. The only ones I've seen all summer are "Penric's Progress" and "Penric's Mission" - no Vorkosigan, earlier 5 gods, or Sharing Knife books. Proabably an artifact of the pandemic messing with distribution.
@ Ursula --No, that's just an artifact of the books being old. Brick-and-mortar bookstores having very limited shelf space, for every new title that is added an old one has to go.
Both publishers and bookstores also want what they call "sales velocity", in hopes of economies of scale kicking in. A title occupying a slot that sells 10 copies a month is vastly preferred over one that sells 1 copy every two months. Books that sit around too long are booted and their slots given to new hopefuls. (Like the two new Penric omnibuses, but they are aging out by now as well.)
Not a problem with ebooks.
Ta, L.
