Orphans…

I still believe that small presses are a good choice for authors who want to publish their books traditionallythey at least offer some TLC none of the Big Five can provide (or is it the Big Four now with Simon & Schuster merging with Penguin Random House?). But many of them have become little more than POD outfits, due to economic hardships, so that old advantage of getting books in bookstores has all but disappeared (bookstores require books to be returnable, and POD books are not). Even the...