[New-Poetry] In your local bookstore

[James Cervantes]

Exactly.  But on the other side, P.O.D. publishers (the ones I know
of) will not take back unsold copies and/or not pay the return
shipping costs, which makes sense economically.  Likewise, most indie
stores cannot afford to pay the return shipping costs.  Indies, with
major exceptions like Powell's, also do not have the shelf space that
would allow them to display copies indefinitely.

But there's Amazon.

- Jim

On 1/14/08, jforjames at aol.com <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
>
> I think it's because the books don't come to store from their usual reps
> and distributors. It's an old story old dog booksellers having trouble
> catching
> on to new tricks. I hate to say it, but most indie booksellers who have
>  closed their doors, closed them themselves.
> Finnegan
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
>  Bcc: jforjames at aol.com
>  Sent: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 8:00 pm
>  Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] In your local bookstore
>
>
>
> Then how does your local bookstore know they're POD?
>
>  James Cervantes wrote:
>  > Yeah, P.O.D. is on demand printing, but the books look like any other
>  > book published by a traditional press. The cookbook look must have
>  > been a personal decision re formatting.
>  >
>  > - Jim
>  >
>  > On 1/14/08, TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org> wrote:
>  > >> I'll be glad to check. POD is publish on demand? The Dennis Bressack
>  >> book (local poet) looks like it must be -- it's bound like a cookbook,
>  >> or Chicken Soup for the Poet's Soul.
>  >>
>  >> James Cervantes wrote:
>  >> >>> Tad: Would you happen to know if the Inquiring Mind stocks p.o.d.
>  >>> books? The local indie here refuses to do so.
>  >>>
>  >>> - Jim
>  >>>
>  >>> On 1/14/08, *TheOldMole* <Opus40-01 at opus40.org
>  >>> <mailto:Opus40-01 at opus40.org>> wrote:
>  >>>
>  >>> In response to David Graham's musing of a while back about the
>  >>> amount of
>  >>> contemporary poetry actually in bookstores, here's what the Inquiring
>  >>> Mind, local indie in Saugerties, NY, has:
>  >>>
>  >>> Julia Alvarez
>  >>> John Amen
>  >>> Maya Angelou
>  >>> Jimmy Santiago Baca
>  >>> Erin Belieu
>  >>> Martine Bellen
>  >>> Philip Booth
>  >>> Dennis Bressack
>  >>> David Budbill
>  >>> Eirann Corrigan (teen poet)
>  >>> Brenda Coultas
>  >>> Sandra Gilbert
>  >>> April Bernard
>  >>> Louise Erdrich
>  >>> C. G. Ferrel
>  >>> Seamus Heaney
>  >>> Ted Hughes
>  >>> Josephine Jacobsen
>  >>> David Kherdian
>  >>> James Lasdun
>  >>> Tom McCoy
>  >>> Jane Miller
>  >>> Elizabeth Gordon McKim
>  >>> Diane Ackerman
>  >>> Anne Lauterbach
>  >>> Honor Moore
>  >>> Mildred Barker
>  >>> Thom Molinaro
>  >>> Naomi Shihab Nye
>  >>> India Radfar
>  >>> Sherrod Santos
>  >>> Alice Walker
>  >>> Anne Waldman
>  >>> Patti Smith
>  >>> Aharon Shabtai
>  >>> Ann Stanford
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>> --
>  >>> Tad Richards
>  >>> http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
>  >>> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
>  >>>
>  >>> The moral is this: in American verse,
>  >>> The better you are, the pay is worse.
>  >>> --Corey Ford
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>  >> Tad Richards
>  >> http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
>  >> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
>  >>
>  >> The moral is this: in American verse,
>  >> The better you are, the pay is worse.
>  >> --Corey Ford
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>  -- Tad Richards
>  http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
>  http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
>
>  The moral is this: in American verse,
>  The better you are, the pay is worse.
>   --Corey Ford
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