Many authors don’t feel like they’ve really “made it” until they can walk into their local bookstore and find their book on the shelves. They want their friends and family to be able to find their books at their local bookstores, too. After...
You walk into a bookstore. You don’t know which book you want, you need to look and see what’s available. Bookstores, obviously, know how book buyers use the store. They arrange the books by categories. Novels here, cookbooks in the back, reference works...
We went down to Borders today. It was like a courtesy call, stopping in at the home of the bereaved. The community gathers mourning the loss of the big store next to Toys R Us and Barbeques Galore. It was my book design research lab. The store that had killed the...