When I was growing up we had one market stall which sold Enid Blyton pbs and v little else and one bookstore which stocked dictionaries etc which you visited when you had won a school prize. My parents were in a postal book club (we would regularly get books we didn't want because they forgot to cancel them) and um that was the only access to books I had locally outside the library. Any one of the chains gives so much more choice than was available to me as a child. Yep it's hard to make a living out of writing. In the UK the abolition of the net book agreement has made things much tougher for the writer, but I am not sure the consumer is suffering. There are still a hell of a lot of good books out there and there is always the internet. (BTW I was amused to see our recent books linked on amazon earlier today- though I am selling rather lower volumes : ) )
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which you visited when you had won a school prize.
My parents were in a postal book club (we would regularly get books we didn't want because they forgot to cancel them) and um that was the only
access to books I had locally outside the library.
Any one of the chains gives so much more choice than was available to me as a child.
Yep it's hard to make a living out of writing. In the UK the abolition of the net book agreement has made things much tougher for the writer, but I am not sure the consumer is suffering. There are still a hell of a lot of good books out there and there is always the internet.
(BTW I was amused to see our recent books linked on amazon earlier today- though I am selling rather lower volumes : ) )