http://www.hawaiireaders.com/blog/2009/10/27/publishing-basics-author-royalties/ The Hawaii Readers site Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:16:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.hawaiireaders.com/blog/2009/10/27/publishing-basics-author-royalties/comment-page-1/#comment-715 Page Turner Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:33:07 +0000 http://www.hawaiireaders.com/?p=5325#comment-715 RJ wrote: “In Hawaii we have very few independent bookstores. This may seem unfortunate, until you realize that only 15 years ago there were no Borders or Barnes & Noble stores in Hawaii.” Didja know? The 1993 arrival of Borders in Hawaii wasn’t the first time a national bookstore chain entered the Hawaii market. In 1945, Brentano’s, the largest U.S. retail book company at that time, bought the inventory of a book department within Grossman-Moody, an Oriental antiques and jewelry firm located on Kalakaua. That location became Brentano’s of the Pacific Limited, Grossman-Moody Branch. Brentano’s intended to expand into the rest of the Pacific by using reusing war facilities for the shipment of books. Obviously that didn’t happen, though a second store was opened in downtown Honolulu, and in 1951 they sold out to Harold G. (Harlo) Dillingham, Jr., who then changed the name to Honolulu Book Shops. More on the following years, when fitting... RJ wrote: “In Hawaii we have very few independent bookstores. This may seem unfortunate, until you realize that only 15 years ago there were no Borders or Barnes & Noble stores in Hawaii.” Didja know? The 1993 arrival of Borders in Hawaii wasn’t the first time a national bookstore chain entered the Hawaii market. In 1945, Brentano’s, the largest U.S. retail book company at that time, bought the inventory of a book department within Grossman-Moody, an Oriental antiques and jewelry firm located on Kalakaua. That location became Brentano’s of the Pacific Limited, Grossman-Moody Branch. Brentano’s intended to expand into the rest of the Pacific by using reusing war facilities for the shipment of books. Obviously that didn’t happen, though a second store was opened in downtown Honolulu, and in 1951 they sold out to Harold G. (Harlo) Dillingham, Jr., who then changed the name to Honolulu Book Shops. More on the following years, when fitting...

]]> http://www.hawaiireaders.com/blog/2009/10/27/publishing-basics-author-royalties/comment-page-1/#comment-634 Makana Risser Chai Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:27:29 +0000 http://www.hawaiireaders.com/?p=5325#comment-634 Thanks Roger! As an author, I've always had the sneaking suspicion I was getting a raw deal from the publishers. Now come to find out I'm average. That's good news. You might also want to address how many books the average author sells. I'm sure some people reading this are multiplying these amounts by hundreds of thousands if not millions of books sold. Thanks Roger! As an author, I've always had the sneaking suspicion I was getting a raw deal from the publishers. Now come to find out I'm average. That's good news. You might also want to address how many books the average author sells. I'm sure some people reading this are multiplying these amounts by hundreds of thousands if not millions of books sold.

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