[rescue] I'm a published author 8-)

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

>On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:45:23PM -0400, Rebecca Ore wrote:

>> Borders, Barnes&Noble, etc. probably get a 60% discount from the
>> publishers, but I don't know that for a fact.
>
>Probably closer to ~%47 or so (depending on quantity), we get
>%46 flat out on the trades from Harper.

What some do is to set up a dummy wholesaler, who then gets 55-60% off.

>Although we (American Booksellers Association, I think one of
>our GM's is chairman) were just in a big lawsuit (that we
>won... dubious comfort) arguing that the publishers were
>giving the chains better discounts.

They do.  They might lie about it, but they do.

Scary to hear about the margins.  Used to be that margins were about 7%.

Cordially
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