That’s getting harder to do. I read Stross’s blog sometimes, and he talks about how publishing works. A few years back he started talking about how there were no more “paperbacks”, and I didn’t know what to think of that. But yeh, they don’t really exist anymore at all, if you go into a bookstore. It’s all hardback and “trade paperback” (itself an excuse to sell a slightly larger paperback for $22, apparently). Obscure stuff isn’t even printed at all anymore. And only the most popular authors ever get hardback publishing… and the runs are small.
If he had a tip jar, I’d maybe Paypal him something, but there’s even a blog post about why he doesn’t have one.
That’s getting harder to do. I read Stross’s blog sometimes, and he talks about how publishing works. A few years back he started talking about how there were no more “paperbacks”, and I didn’t know what to think of that. But yeh, they don’t really exist anymore at all, if you go into a bookstore. It’s all hardback and “trade paperback” (itself an excuse to sell a slightly larger paperback for $22, apparently). Obscure stuff isn’t even printed at all anymore. And only the most popular authors ever get hardback publishing… and the runs are small.
If he had a tip jar, I’d maybe Paypal him something, but there’s even a blog post about why he doesn’t have one.
last time I asked about ordering a specific book at the bookstore they said they couldn’t do it.
The book was an published in the UK and with the brexit it was too expensive (iirc) to order small quantities to europe…