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bookgazing) wrote2010-07-08 11:21 am
bookgazing) wrote2010-07-08 11:21 am
Action Points
So for anyone interested I pre-ordered ‘The Fury of the Phoenix’ to support Cindy Pon, because I spoke to a few people who should really know if boycotting would have the desired effect. Then sent Greenwillow an email explaining that my decision to buy the whitewashed book should not be taken as an indication that whitewashing works. Will they care? Realistically I think we know the answer.
Ari is running a campaign to get people to write to Borders and Barnes and Noble to explain what they’ve caused by passing on ‘Silver Phoenix’. She is honestly just the best. If you’re in the US consider writing a letter and posting it on your blog. It would be really interesting to know if ‘Silver Phoenix’ sells in the chains here in the UK (no Borders here anymore, or Barnes and Noble), wondering if anyone knows where I might find that out (I guess I could just go and look, but it might just have been bought, or not be in our nearest chains).
inkstone is running an experiment to get people buying the original hardcover of ‘Silver Phoenix online, then review it. The bargain price hardback has sold out on Amazon.com . How about a little signal boosting contest here. I’m giving away one copy of the original hardback ‘Silver Phoenix’ to anyone who thinks they can commit to reviewing it by the first week in August – international giveaway folks, that’s rare. If more than one person wants it (comment by midnight GMT Monday) I’ll do a random number draw.
When whitewashing comes up I tend to react by supporting the books that promote the kind of diversity I want to see so I broke that book buying ban and I got angry about the treatment of GLBT fiction in the same week so I broke it in quite a big way. More on that later, with book pictures! But then I saw the comment on bookshop’s post that suggest ravenous book buyers may not be a book sellers ideal customer and so may not have much chance to change the industry through what they purchase. Very interesting comments and in some ways I understand what sellers are thinking, but in other ways it just goes so hard against the basic principles of marketing my brain explodes. I guess this means we have to get people who don’t read that often to make their few books really count?
That's all you'll hear about this from me for a while. Book filled posts to follow.
Ari is running a campaign to get people to write to Borders and Barnes and Noble to explain what they’ve caused by passing on ‘Silver Phoenix’. She is honestly just the best. If you’re in the US consider writing a letter and posting it on your blog. It would be really interesting to know if ‘Silver Phoenix’ sells in the chains here in the UK (no Borders here anymore, or Barnes and Noble), wondering if anyone knows where I might find that out (I guess I could just go and look, but it might just have been bought, or not be in our nearest chains).
inkstone is running an experiment to get people buying the original hardcover of ‘Silver Phoenix online, then review it. The bargain price hardback has sold out on Amazon.com . How about a little signal boosting contest here. I’m giving away one copy of the original hardback ‘Silver Phoenix’ to anyone who thinks they can commit to reviewing it by the first week in August – international giveaway folks, that’s rare. If more than one person wants it (comment by midnight GMT Monday) I’ll do a random number draw.
When whitewashing comes up I tend to react by supporting the books that promote the kind of diversity I want to see so I broke that book buying ban and I got angry about the treatment of GLBT fiction in the same week so I broke it in quite a big way. More on that later, with book pictures! But then I saw the comment on bookshop’s post that suggest ravenous book buyers may not be a book sellers ideal customer and so may not have much chance to change the industry through what they purchase. Very interesting comments and in some ways I understand what sellers are thinking, but in other ways it just goes so hard against the basic principles of marketing my brain explodes. I guess this means we have to get people who don’t read that often to make their few books really count?
That's all you'll hear about this from me for a while. Book filled posts to follow.