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But Ed, we watched as they talked it out and decided that the publicity was actually good for them. Listen, pride is involved here, and you know how that can be. They are still trying to convince eachother and themselves that we are (and the press), lying. Not all though, even the new ones are questioning, but more privately, in emails than on the board. If any of us really thought that the news settled it for everyone, we'd pack up and go home. We all know that it didn't, yes, the word has spread, but there needs to be more and more. Take the library link I wanted posted, how many people see that? If we put it here in connection with this thread, more will see...it's on the other board.
We might be surprised at how many are still hanging on to the hope that this news will not hit where they live. All of the authors need to know that the library's and book stores all know this news, at least that way they will be prepared when confronted with the news, and some will be. Someone, somewhere, will tell a PA author about PA being a vanity press and POD, and when the author says, "I didn't pay to have my book published," someone will say, no, but you bought all those books to sell to me now didn't you. It will be embarrassing...and now, remember when someone posted a email from that private yahoo pro-PA group? So now PA is setting up the authors to forget about bookstores and concentrate on Libraries, who KNOW about Atlanta Nights...ugh.
From here, knowing everything that has been written, it is so obvious, but not so to the one's who are holding on, and the new one's, but they will learn, as you say, royalty checks. I say the first one is almost always small, and by the time you get the second one, you know what PA is and there are a hundred new authors over there. What a deal PA has.