The Good: Jay Ford Thurston, author of Following in the Footsteps of Ernest Hemingway and Out of the Rainbow, has continued to sell books a the Viroqua, Wisconsin (his home town) Farmer's Market. There amongst the vegetables is Jay's portable bookstore. Way to go Jay.
The Bad: The book biz seems slower these days. Less website activity...possibly due to summertime fun. Fewer distributor orders...possibly due to summertime fun. Generally less book buzz...possibly due to summertime fun.
The Ugly: Returns. Oh how I hate returns. The bookstores and distributors have a free ride. They can return any title at any time for any reason and guess who pays? The publisher. Plus, the distributors bitch about inadequate packaging and then they return big boxes of books that are unprofessionally packaged and virtually sans protection to the point where 99% of all returned books are un-re-sellable. Guess who just got a big shipment of returned books?
All in all, though...life is good. Let's make it better.
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