Barbara said: "This is what I've always felt about POD or subsidy
publishing in general.  Even if you are a born marketer, there is such
built-in resistance from distributors to handling the books that it is
an almost futile up-hill battle to get sales."

With most POD companies nowadays, the distributors have no problem
shipping AFTER an order is made. Without shelf-space, however, sales
are low. Self-help seems to not have this built-in nastiness, from
what I've heard. People seem more willing to take a chance on a
sight-unseen self-help book that they just don't want to take on
fiction.

That the novel was selected as required reading, and then the
publisher doesn't seem able to work out an agreeable distribution
arrangement to get it to the students on time ... that's my current
road block .. and it really has me both frustrated and pissed off. Two
of three POD novels were selected for such arrangements to date.

I've more or less toasted my chances with my last three novels in
terms of regular publishers. They won't want my novels now, because I
decided to try an experiment. Who wants a previously published novel,
even if it only sold 20 copies? Nobody.

What a waste.

I have to reconsider my strategies. This may or may not include just
saying "Tehellwithit" and just focusing on other things than writing
fiction.

--
Quinn Tyler Jackson
http://members.shaw.ca/qjackson/
http://members.shaw.ca/jacksonsolutions/

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