I told myself I wouldn't write
this post, I told myself I wasn't gong to but screw it.
After getting tons of coupons for
Barnes and Noble in the mail, and in my email for Black Friday, I decided to go
to my favorite place in the whole world.
I started browsing around and I
was looking for books from small publishers I know and like, guess what they weren't there. So then I tried to find newly released books from other Big 5
publishers, guess what, they weren't on display either. I will tell you what I
did find, a whole small rolling cart filled with the Divergent trilogy by
Veronica Roth (I haven’t read this trilogy yet, it’s next on my list I just
waited until the whole series was out), 5 book shelves filled with Cassandra
Clare’s novels, and 4 shelves filled with the horrible Twilight Saga. Then when
I asked the sales person for some of the books, said they didn't have them in
stock, but she could order them for me.
I was angry and depressed. All
the books I wanted to read and they didn't even have them. Then for the sales woman to tell me she could order them for me, I can order them myself but I
still like to go to brick and mortar in support of them.
An author friend of mine Jessica
Spotswood of Born Wicked and Star Cursed was discussing with other authors how
it’s hard for their books to sell when they don’t even have a big selection of
newly released books. After what I witnessed today she’s right, there really
was no selection for me to pick from. The only books I saw were either
A). the ones I had already read
or
B). They were the books that are
already hyped up by franchises.
The bookstores would have had
more books to display new authors and releases if Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series wasn't taking up
four shelves, 5 shelves of Cassandra Clare books, and a whole table of Veronica
Roth’s books. The bookstores can make room they just put in the books that are hyped up because they think it will bring them business. I say it’s high time for them to down
the ones that have been sitting there for years and let new authors work shine.
*Big sigh* Now I have to go to Amazon and Barnes & Noble to go order all the books I wasn't able to get.
