Paperbacks at Barnes and Noble

By Elaine L. Orr

Beginning May 14^th, all paperback books published through Barnes and Noble Press were required to be priced at $14.99 or more. BN Press is the in-house publishing firm that self published authors use for ebooks and paperbacks at Barnes and Noble. I suppose some smaller publishing companies use it, too.

The rationale is that BN needs the higher price to run a quality business. (That is my shorthand.)

 I have taken down all of my standard-sized paperbacks, which I sold for $9 or $10.99 – less for shorter books or novellas. I love my books, but I don’t feel right about selling them for 9.99 on Amazon and then upping the price by $5 just to have them on Barnes and Noble. I will start putting my large print books on BN. They are longer books and I don’t mind selling them for that price. They will still be cheaper on Amazon.

I expect that Barnes and Noble will pick up my books via Ingram. At least I have not heard that they are trying to tell Ingram what to do! Ingram’s price point was a bit higher than my Barnes and Noble prices because that’s what they required. However I don’t think anything was as much as $14.99.

 So sad. I have listed books on BN since February 2012. My ebooks will always be on BN for Nook.

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