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Iconic ranking of "Best ways to order".

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I love that you took the time (lots of it?!) to write this guide to paperbacks! Perhaps now I'll have to explain to one fewer person why they have to wait a year to get a paperback edition of that new novel, or what we mean when we say "mass market." Enjoy the paperback tour!

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This is great, Rebecca!! Loved Fabio, the indie secret about Paperback Writer, and --always-- any dig about the flying penis and book banners.

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Target is also my spiritual home. Loved this, thank you!

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Funding Bezos' penis rockets... well, when you put it that way! I'll admit I have a bad Amazon habit but that phrasing might be enough to change my ways.

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Thank you for the list. Mnemonics like these make my life easier. "Actively talking people out of buying the book" is so time-consuming!!

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Another fantastic Submakk, Rebecca! Especially the detail about your golden retriever and Fabio.😂 Looking forward to your talk in Montclair this Thursday!!!

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Sadly, "Grandma Called It Carnal" isn't available on gutenberg.org, so we may never know

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I brought my indie-published book to be read by my local indie-bookstore -- getting considered for shelf space turned out to be pretty complicated. While I was there, I started to browse, and suddenly discovered exactly where my book would go. It was ALL I could do to not insert in on the shelf.

But then, I figured, anyone who wanted it would have an embarrassing moment with the clerk when the computer did not have a bar code to scan and probably would not just walk out with it, so what's the point? But contemplating it did give me a thrill, for a minute my heart pounded at this possible act of subversion.

I wonder if it would work in a regular library.

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I realize this really had very little to do with your post. Although somehow in my head it did.

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