I went to Borders/Barnes&Noble/B.Dalton/WaldenBooks/WalMart and looked for News of the Stoopid but they didn have it. Where do I get this thing?
Anyone can write a book. Getting a book published is somewhat more difficult. And getting the book distributed is roughly impossible. I got the first two done without much effort; the distribution issue is the current problem. It seems to be ‘solved’ only until I stop screaming at people and get off the phone. Initially, the problem was that the distributor contractually agreed to distribute the book before noticing that the book wasn’t very nice. That they’d read it exhaustively enough to ask whether a few things were typos is kinda odd. The distributor agreed to release the book to all of these stores, and then didn’t because they were convinced that they’d get sued for being associated with it at all. Meanwhile, because everything was set up to have them distribute it, I can’t get rid of them and set up a contract with a different distributor. So we’re waiting on the current distributor to get round to actually distributing it. Because the distributor is failing to distribute the bo
