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From: Norma Jean Sawicki <nsawicki_at_nyc.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:55:22 -0500
The following did not go through the first time because I forgot to delete the to/fro and there were too many lines, hope this goes through now….
On Feb 13, 2014, at 5:49 PM, Norma Jean Sawicki wrote:
> I have done a fair amount of research and am happy to say I would safely bet against ideology being the reason Journey of Dreams has had disappointing sales. Instead, it was caught in a shift in ownership, as well as a shift in distribution..a potential nightmare for every writer…..and for the publisher, too...
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> The extraordinary Frances Lincoln, whom I knew, died in her 50s in 2011. Her husband, managed the company until 2011 when it was bought by the Quarto Group, where it became part of Aurum Publishing Down the road, distribution was changed to Quayside Publishing. Moving stock to different warehouses, putting different discount plans, policies, into place for buyers, transferring information from one computer system to another, changing sales forces, etc…all of the nuts and bolts of the backbone of sales and distribution changed dramatically for Frances Lincoln not only when it was sold but when the distribution changed. Having worked for a publisher that only changed warehouses, in my bones, orders for Journey of Dreams and others books could not be fulfilled in a timely fashion, some were no doubt canceled. There is also a period in which books cannot be shipped because there must be an accurate counting of the inventory. No matter how well planned, etc…knowing what I do, if I were a writer and knew this was coming down the pike, I would be uneasy, if not worried/gloomy.
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> Not good news by any means but I hope it is useful….Norma Jean
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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:55:22 -0500
The following did not go through the first time because I forgot to delete the to/fro and there were too many lines, hope this goes through now….
On Feb 13, 2014, at 5:49 PM, Norma Jean Sawicki wrote:
> I have done a fair amount of research and am happy to say I would safely bet against ideology being the reason Journey of Dreams has had disappointing sales. Instead, it was caught in a shift in ownership, as well as a shift in distribution..a potential nightmare for every writer…..and for the publisher, too...
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> The extraordinary Frances Lincoln, whom I knew, died in her 50s in 2011. Her husband, managed the company until 2011 when it was bought by the Quarto Group, where it became part of Aurum Publishing Down the road, distribution was changed to Quayside Publishing. Moving stock to different warehouses, putting different discount plans, policies, into place for buyers, transferring information from one computer system to another, changing sales forces, etc…all of the nuts and bolts of the backbone of sales and distribution changed dramatically for Frances Lincoln not only when it was sold but when the distribution changed. Having worked for a publisher that only changed warehouses, in my bones, orders for Journey of Dreams and others books could not be fulfilled in a timely fashion, some were no doubt canceled. There is also a period in which books cannot be shipped because there must be an accurate counting of the inventory. No matter how well planned, etc…knowing what I do, if I were a writer and knew this was coming down the pike, I would be uneasy, if not worried/gloomy.
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> Not good news by any means but I hope it is useful….Norma Jean
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