Book Sense
By Jerry D. Simmons | April 25th, 2007 | No Comments » (Click to add yours!)
Last week I encountered an angry Book Sense executive. I was emailing an author from NothingBinding.com and accidently hit the reply button which sent the intended email not to my colleague but to the Book Sense office. In case anyone is not familiar, Book Sense is an organization designed to offer Independent Bookstores news, reviews, and information about titles from small publishers.
My comments went something along the lines that Book Sense would never promote Independent titles because they are funded by the big six publishers and have become a mouth piece for the big publishers and thus would not be interested in promoting Independent titles to Independent bookstores. Well I quickly received an email response from Book Sense intended to clarify my position.
First off the gentleman I spoke to was upset that his name was used in the private email and that I was spreading false and misleading information. He did tell me he would send corrected information to me to clear up the misinformation. He seemed to think the fact that I have been away from NY for over four years had a direct impact in my lack of understanding.
Well here is what I do know: (1) I have yet to receive corrected information, (2) I made a mistake including the name of a former colleague, and (3) It does cost an Independent Author to “place” his or her title in the Book Sense newsletter. Aside from that I stand behind my earlier comments until I hear different from the Book Sense staff.
Why am I telling you this? And why should you care? Because it is not my intent to mislead anyone with my writing, I try to be as accurate and honest as possible about what I write, whether in a private email or blog for everyone to read. In this case I stand behind everything I wrote earlier until I hear otherwise from a respected and credible source.
This blog is unedited, please disregard mistakes in spelling and grammar.
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