Why Tobias Buckell's Latest Isn't Stocked at Borders, and other stories

[davidlevine]

This is a really important essay for anyone who wants to understand the bookselling industry today. Read it.

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2008/10/on-being-skipped.html

(Hat tip to jaylake)

Comments

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

As far as I know, the only books that B&N will refuse to order for customers on request are print-on-demand, because they have (as a chain) suffered through too many POD authors or agents ordering books and not buying them when they arrive.

There may be books that they can't order because those books aren't available to them, but that's a different matter. Even B&N, large as it is, doesn't have infinite resources to maintain purchasing accounts with every publisher in America, though they do a pretty good job of it.