Yes. B&N got rid of their receiving managers, which means they're now controlling all stocking through models centrally. I give their brick and mortar stores a decade, maybe less.
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Can attest. Much of my visits to B&N are spent with manga, coding, YA, and Sci-Fi/Fantasy classics. I would love to see my work on their shelves, but that'll take time, and some more work under my belt as well.
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The catlady crew might be accurately responding to market forces too though-- if power law means only one mainstream SFF shelf slot opens per decade, differentiating yourself based on catering to the league of fractally intersectional librarians might be your best hope.
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...Especially if they're targeting the self-validation threshold of "I sold one book to a traditional publisher, that means I'm a Real Writer and didn't waste the last 12 years" rather than trying to maximize ROI.
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I don’t understand the objection to reading authors who have died. I was going to read Fahrenheit 451, but Ray Bradbury is dead, oh well, too late now.
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