Comments on: Barnes & Noble and POD http://murder.booklocker.com/2007/03/26/barnes-noble-and-pod/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:46:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Robert Walker http://murder.booklocker.com/2007/03/26/barnes-noble-and-pod/#comment-206 Robert Walker Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:43:19 +0000 http://murder.booklocker.com/2007/03/26/barnes-noble-and-pod/#comment-206 Bookstore managers, regional managers for Waldenbooks, B&N, Borders, BAM, all of them are different and it's a big crap shoot to get one on your side and cheering for you, but it happens. Most follow the corporate spiel...especially BAM. Hard to find a gutsy manager among em. I've hat in-store managers buck the "system" to get me in and if we sell between 35-60 books at a signing, the wisdom is, "What's so bad about that?" But these instances have happened when a manager orders the books around corporate or they have very good ties with the regional and the regional gives the go-ahead. Occasionally, I've managed to have a good rapport with a regional manager as well. Every store is different; so much depends on who is manager that evening or that day you walk in. Most stores you want to leave with contact info for the regional manager. Making contact with regional managers does not always end in what you want either. I've done countless book signings for decades now, and it has only gotten harder to get into a store. Rob Bookstore managers, regional managers for Waldenbooks, B&N, Borders, BAM, all of them are different and it’s a big crap shoot to get one on your side and cheering for you, but it happens. Most follow the corporate spiel…especially BAM. Hard to find a gutsy manager among em. I’ve hat in-store managers buck the “system” to get me in and if we sell between 35-60 books at a signing, the wisdom is, “What’s so bad about that?” But these instances have happened when a manager orders the books around corporate or they have very good ties with the regional and the regional gives the go-ahead. Occasionally, I’ve managed to have a good rapport with a regional manager as well. Every store is different; so much depends on who is manager that evening or that day you walk in. Most stores you want to leave with contact info for the regional manager. Making contact with regional managers does not always end in what you want either.

I’ve done countless book signings for decades now, and it has only gotten harder to get into a store.

Rob

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