Last night, for no good reason at all, I checked the online availability of my latest novel, The Blogger Who Came in from the Cold. Of course it’s available at Amazon and so on; better still at our own Comely Bank Publishing website direct and direct from my own website. (These last two options give the author by far the best portion of the cover price.) Then I checked Waterstones, Blackwell’s and a number of other bookstores – fine. Not W. H. Smith, though, who are little better than Tesco. At the very least a bookseller should be able to order a book for you if it’s in print and has an ISBN: W. H. Smith appear not to be bothered, although the odd ebook pops up on their system.
But in the process I came across a site called awesomebooks.com that claimed to have a second-hand copy of my new book for sale in New York for… £77.68! That’s nonsense. Anyone wanting a copy of the book can have one for just a quarter of that figure, postage included. To America. A new copy costs just a tenner in the UK, postage included.
Meanwhile, watch out for genuine special offers. And please get in touch if you’d like a copy of any of my books and I’ll surely manage a better price than you can get in any bookstore or online from Amazon. And certainly from AwesomeBooks.
But in the process I came across a site called awesomebooks.com that claimed to have a second-hand copy of my new book for sale in New York for… £77.68! That’s nonsense. Anyone wanting a copy of the book can have one for just a quarter of that figure, postage included. To America. A new copy costs just a tenner in the UK, postage included.
Meanwhile, watch out for genuine special offers. And please get in touch if you’d like a copy of any of my books and I’ll surely manage a better price than you can get in any bookstore or online from Amazon. And certainly from AwesomeBooks.
