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     Emanuel Veteran Poster Username: Emanuel Post Number: 707 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A |
Are you buying less books in this economy than you did last year? Or is buying books a form of entertainment and information that you refuse to reduce in your budget? A lot of us buy books to support an author. Did that change for you this year? Who is buying books on how to save money, make more money, or simply get rich? | ||
| Troy AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Troy Post Number: 1896 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
E. lately I've been making it a point to buy more books from authors to support them (ecconomy be damned). More often than not, the author will push back and offer to give me the book for free. I really do appreciate these authors. I typically buy books from authors I've seen more than once, or who I'm already familiar with for some reason. At Curtis Bunn's National Book Club Conference (a terrific event). I brought several books and took one for free (I intend to have it reviewed). The was an author who had a $25 book. It was nicely done hardcover nice paper, but I could not be convinced to pay $25 for a book by an unknown author. I felt bad for the author, because I have to believe his sales suffered for that reason. There was another author whose book, a very slim paperback, cost $20. I normally would refused to buy that book too, but she was Harlem based and I'm biased to my community. Although, if that book cost a penny more I would not have paid for it. One author charged $5 book (a steal), a couple of other authors were open to negotiation. I even swapped, with one vendor, two AALBC.com tote bags for a neat "Real Men Read" tee-shirt. I think now is the time to support authors MORE not less. | ||
| Thumper Veteran Poster Username: Thumper Post Number: 854 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Hello All, I raise my hand. I have been buying books like they are going out of style. God bless Amazon Marketplace. I have not found a lot of books by black authors that I don't already have or am not interested in reading. I have been getting and reading books on Southern low rent, trashy, lazy, trifling white folks, aka Republicans. Mainly, I've been reading books that I bought many years ago that I never got around to reading. | ||
| Emanuel Veteran Poster Username: Emanuel Post Number: 708 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A |
I've been buying too fellas, but at places like Half Price Books. (Don't worry Troy; I still buy all of my music CDs and some Christmas gifts through the AALBC link.) If any of my writer friends come out with a book, I show my support with a purchase. For nonfiction that I want to read but don't want to pay for, I request a review copy from the publisher and then post a lil' review for Midwest Book Review or on my blog. Then, there is always the library card... |
