Dear Readers,
You may have heard of this ongoing war between my publisher (Orbit) and Amazon.
Basically, Amazon is being greedy, trying to punish a publisher who refuses to cave in pricing negotiations. The people who get hurt when elephants dance are always the little guys, in this case, us authors.
I no longer have a "normal" job -- post 65, I found that the work I was doing was a bit beyond me physically: the tropical rainforest is a tough place. In addition I started to have some skeletal issues that tend to plague the aged... Now, of course, I am no longer living in Malaysia anyway. So my only income is my writing.
And let's face it, Amazon.com has become more and more important for selling books. Bookchains -- having wrecked the independents with their price cutting and other tactics -- are now collapsing under their mismanagement and misunderstanding of the industry. So what Amazon does has become more and more vital to authors and publishers. Amazon knows that, and they are using that knowledge to further their greed, indifferent to how the small guy suffers. (At the moment, Amazon.co.uk --at least as far as my books are concerned -- does not seem to have joined in the war.)
What can you, the reader do?
Buy your books elsewhere.
Here are a few alternatives:
WORLDWIDE for HAVENSTAR
Paperback or hardback: Buy from Indiebooks
eBook can be bought through:
Smashwords, which includes a Kindle version
Kobo,
Barnes & Noble;
AUSTRALIA (for other titles of mine)
Fishpond
Booktopia
Dymocks stores
Click on the links for a list of my paperback books available at any of the above
Or try Independent bookshops such as:
Galaxy in Sydney
Stefen's in Perth
Pulpfiction in Brisbane
In USA
Buy any of my books (listed here) from BARNES &NOBLE
Independent bookstores such as Borderlands San Francisco
In UK
Try Waterstones.
About Me
- Glenda Larke
- Australia
- My life was described by one of my editors as “impossibly exotic” – although really it was not my life, but me, that was the exotic, the uprooted plant, the one who didn’t belong, always living in someone else’s backyard...
Now I am back in Australia, the returning native learning to live where I was born. Writer, traveler, environmentalist. Author of The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted); The Mirage Makers trilogy (Heart of the Mirage, Shadow of Tyr, Song of the Shiver Barrens); The Stormlord trilogy The Last Stormlord, Stormlord Rising, Stormlord's Exile, and writing as Glenda Noramly, a stand-alone book Havenstar.
LATEST: THE FORSAKEN LANDS A clash of cultures and magic as traders and buccaneers hunt for spices and wealth in the Va-forsaken half of the world ... even as the unidentified darkness of plague and murder stalks their own land. THE LASCAR'S DAGGER , THE DAGGER'S PATH and final book, THE FALL OF THE DAGGER available worldwide now! A new standalone work is now with my publisher...
