>the prospects for small new book specialist
>retailers look pretty bleak and I guess that at least in poetry the
>future will lie with direct-to-publisher probably on-line sales.
>Alan Halsey
I couldn't agree more with this.
As a small publisher i'm trying to
only encourage direct sales from
on-line contacts. Dealing with
the bookshops, and all that the
hassle sometimes involves,
is great for PR / advertising
but pretty time consuming and
sometimes soul destroying.
A shame for the bookshops
and potentially inward
looking but heck, in some
ways the poetry communities
are so . . . i mean we're
busy working on CDs and
many of 'em still don't have
a CD player. This is the
same problem as the on-line
one.
Poets, invest in the future
of poetry. Get on-line, at
home (i know it costs, but i
started on the dole) and
use it - for correspondence,
networking, publishing, book
buying, writing.
It's rapidly not such a technocratic
elite thang. Still yes, but
losing ground.
first time i've written soul
in maybe 20 years. Must be
some kind of virus i've
caught
love and love
cris
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