Life, Interrupted

You all may be yelling already about this, but if not:

So Amazon has decided that, for the convenience of the buyer, it will only sell POD books that they, themselves, put together at BookSurge and then zip out to everyone at lightning speed!

HA! HOW many distribution centers does Amazon have? It has a couple dozen world wide, at least 10 in the USA according to the last PW article I read on it. Does it have the PODS on-site? ALL sites? What do you think? A state of the art printing press is not a behemoth, but it's not a laptop, either. And the color ones are not cheap.

An aside -- have you looked at what BookSurge charges for a fiction novel? Ye gods, no one will ever be published again! And do they even have acid-free paper? A quick look through a bit of their tree did not turn up that option.

From what I saw, if NYC doesn't bite on current offerings, I will edit myself, hire LB to do layout and consult on type, cover placement of comments, etc. Either design the cover myself (I was an artist, long ago before words seduced me from my paint) or pay someone to do a cover for it. Cheaper and better quality.

This one at Writer's weekly also has a link to the Amazon letter.

Amazon back-pedals a tad.

So...perhaps it is good I haven't created a blog over there. Eventually, perhaps. But no rush there.

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Back to justifying a script a doctor wrote for me. Don't tell me insurance companies don't know about off-label use. They're just hoping I'm too sick or confused to pursue it. Surprise, surprise -- I'm much tougher than they think.