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> It's sort of a commentary on how tough it must be to be a creative when I can buy remnant books from A list authors sometimes; I've seen Jonathan Franzen, John Scalzi, Bill Mckibben, And Rod Dreher books end up in the dollar bin.

Talented authors who drove retail bookstores to stock their inventory. But when some of it didn't sell, the dollar stores snapped it up for nearly nothing. IMO that's not a slight to the authors. It's to their credit that the bookstores saw their promise based on existing sales at the time.



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