| Re: What is your ideal concept of fantasy?
But libraries don't sell books or pay royalties. What I am trying to say is that everytime we buy a book new, we essentially cast our vote for more books of the exact same sort to be published. If we check out a book from the library, or borrow a book from a friend, or wait to buy it used, we don't vote at all. If we wait for a hard back or a trade paper back to come out in mass market we delay voting, maybe until the publisher has already conceded defeat (in which case there will be no mass market).
I know this, but I seldom have the nerve to put out the dollars for a hardcover edition of a book by a new author. ("Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell" was a big exception, but it sounded like the kind of book that I like and want to see more of, so I took a chance. Still, I hesitated for a couple of months because of the price.) |