The new Amazon Retail Stores may impact your life and there might be a fight. The Giant is raising up and I’m so excited about a new Wall Street Journal article that talks about Amazon opening up to four hundred brick-and-mortar bookstores in shopping malls. I’m so excited because perhaps my books that I wrote will be sold in the new physical Amazon bookstore. Let the kids know what a bookstore is. The proper way to hang out at the bookstore. These kids have never used a typewriter. There is so much that they have missed in order to enjoy the gain. Have you ever looked at a young person when they were making a choice to look something up in a physical book or the electronic version? I have and each time I see them go for the physical book if it’s going to be any length of time. It’s great to be able to pick up your smartphone and talk to it and get your answer right away, but if you really want to learn something wouldn’t you rather go page flipping?
In a recent interview Amazon told the Seattle Times, that online customer reviews would be included to determine what the physical store inventory would be. Amazon Prices will match those online.
I mean really. Think about it. What does this mean? I'm an author and for years I've been trying to figure out how to get my book in the brick-and-mortar chain bookstore. I have been turned down. I have been told if you're self published we can't take your book. If I decide to go with the traditional publisher they want $5500 or more upfront. Plus I have to buy maybe 1000 of my books. And the traditional publisher will change everything. They will change the pictures and change the cover and change the words inside, then change the meaning, the illustrator and have a different editor. Not much of the original book would still remain. I would not have the rights to it. I wouldn't even own my own book.
The constant motivation of searching… possibly going to a hybrid publishing house or an a la carte publisher and paying as I can afford it. Why? That's why I chose to become a self published author. Not every book has 12,000 sales in an hour and makes the big money. It sure would be nice. So if Amazon put self publishers inside brick and mortar stores it would be the answer to so many peoples prayers.
So what will the traditional publisher say? Will it put some of them out of business? Obviously they won't like it. So why would anybody want to go to a traditional publisher then? They take chunks of the money, they do not do much promotion anymore. The author still has to finance it with their other job. Okay, so it’s who they know. I get it. But is it worth it?
Amazon the bookstore and retail for the people by the people thank you, Jeff Bezos.
Rev. Dr. Tracy Elman, D.D., D.M. -multi-award winning best-selling author, narrator, & founder of Leap To New Heights, Empowerment for Life, Education & Coaching TracyElmanBooks.com/Books.html
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