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  • ...ee on "paper" books and higher on e-books, most customers will be careful to only purchase books they desire to keep or simply resell their book purchases themselves if they no longer...
  • Sheri, to answer these questions here: First, e-book purchases completely eliminate this issue.  Not completely. Ebooks are also returnable. It's just less frequent and there's no up f...
  • Thanks for the enlightening post.  It brings to mind a few thoughts:  First, e-book purchases completely eliminate this issue.  Second, why do publishers allow large orders if they wor...
  • Cate, to be really clear, the returns "problem" is not customers returning their purchases; it's retailers ordering more than they can ever sell and returning in bulk to distributors w...
  • ...you get the more likely readers are to buy your book, but the truth is, PR is intended to drive the "why" behind book sales. Why should someone purchases your book - because Redbook m...
  • ...he world and that 1) no one will notice and 2) their life will be trouble free. I shop at Amazon frequently, but I would be very angry if all my purchases traced back to them, regardle...
  • ...available, and I never have to leave my house if I don't wish to, I can buy or get on loan from my library tons of ebooks. Ebooks allow impulse purchases, you can download an eagerly...
  • ...space with O Books & Trafficker Press. Come say hello and pick up a few books -- we'll be giving out some very special Litmus bandanas with purchases of $20 or more!   ...
  • Mylene Dressler commented on her article Humanity
    Cathy, Gerry, how lovely to be walking all together! Gerry: I own a Kindle and love it.  I welcome purchases of my e-books.  In my own reading life, I sometimes by the e-version of a b...
  • ...ach edition of the book the author has licensed it to publish. Most self-publishing companies won’t allow authors to use an ISBN that the author purchases directly for the version of t...