I find most people have no idea how thoroughly Amazon dominates and is destroying the industry.
It's actually through reading Bakka Phoenix' LJ that I've come to get a grip on this. The situation is somewhat better in Canada for independents, since they don't have the inventory tax that Reagan imposed on bookstores, but yeah, I definitely wanted to plug the independent bookstore. Particularly since there are none left near me.
I said to someone on DW that I hadn't thought of these books as epic fantasy until I sat down to write the post, and it's true. But they are epic, and pretty amazing.
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Date: 2010-01-05 23:36 (UTC)It's actually through reading Bakka Phoenix' LJ that I've come to get a grip on this. The situation is somewhat better in Canada for independents, since they don't have the inventory tax that Reagan imposed on bookstores, but yeah, I definitely wanted to plug the independent bookstore. Particularly since there are none left near me.
I said to someone on DW that I hadn't thought of these books as epic fantasy until I sat down to write the post, and it's true. But they are epic, and pretty amazing.