Update Announcement 2

Hello Everyone;

I wanted to take this opportunity to update you with some more news. Before I do, thank you to everyone who reached out to us after our announcements were published last week. Very nice to hear from all of you and we appreciated your kind words of support.

Sandy and I have reached the decision to fire Amazon as our retail outlet for the books. It has become too expensive to do business with Amazon and a general lack of support leaves us very frustrated at times.

This decision only affects the physical book sales. Kindle sales will remain on the Amazon site. As you can imagine, it is a much more cost effective delivery process.

Our decision was not made lightly. I’ve always had the opinion that being on Amazon is a sign of validity. I guess it’s sort of like having a business card to hand out or a business web site. If you don’t have either, you or your business could be viewed in a negative way. However, there comes a time when it doesn’t make any sense to continue with a business model that loses money. Sure, we could increase the price of the book, but I didn’t want to do that as the increase would need to be extremely high.

So, we will begin to sell our books direct from our inventory. We will pay for the postage within the United States and each book will be personally autographed (in the past, books purchased through Amazon were not autographed). While we can’t match the Amazon promise of 2-day delivery, I suspect that is not a purchase barrier for our readers.

Well, that’s it for now.

Next Blog: “TBD”

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