From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: New mass market pb format
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:59:46 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 1:32 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: New mass market pb format

[...]
>
> But B&N is trying to do something.  They [are] publishing their own
books.
> Some are public domain, some are produced for them.. None of the books
> go through outside wholesalers - it's all B&N distribution.  Next time
> you go into a B&N, take a look.

Some years ago I was solicited (by Ed Gorman) to write a 3,000-word "cat
story" for a mystery collection devoted to cats, to be published by B&N.
For various reasons, I did not end up with a story in that book, but my
friend (and fellow Vicious Circle member) Dave Owen, did.   I looked at his
copy of the book.

It was a hardcover and it had *100* 3,000-word stories in it.   It was
printed in small type on almost Bible-thin paper.  Dave's story was lost
among all the others.  He, like all the contributors, was paid $90 (or 3¢ a
word) for his story.

I'm sure B&N made money on this project, but I think it was a loser for all
else concerned.

--Ted White