Barnes & Noble Can’t Do Your Book Justice

These 100 things will take you where you want to go faster

Your author future’s so bright, you gotta wear shades. Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on Unsplash.

What Is Going On with Barnes & Noble? screamed a Book Riot headline a while back. The article detailed changes to B&N’s policies, the news of which blew through the Twitter-LinkedIn-Facebook-private-forum authorsphere at the time.

I skimmed all the articles I saw and retained nothing that struck me as alarmist — because as an indie book publisher for 25+ years, I gave up on Barnes & Noble being the answer to anything years ago. Even back in the day, they were a small sliver of a much, much larger pie. Scratch that. Of a world of pies.

And then I Tweeted as much to an author I follow on Twitter, an author with a new book that looks amazing, beautifully produced, and timely. One that no doubt has readers and buyers galore out there in the multiverse for the matchmaking.

But I thought about it. I didn’t want her to take my word for it. I wanted to deliver. And so I share with you the first 100 things I thought of (I must have another 100 in the wings) that will take an author where you want to go faster than the shelves of a B&N mall store.

1. First, just put B&N out of mind. There are better places to sell books and have readers discover — then buy — then read them, rather than…