Like Lawrence Block, I just couldn’t keep quiet about this. Don’t know whether to laugh or sneer.
This is just too good to keep to myself.
An independent bookseller I know landed a major bestselling author for a rare in-store signing. He got the word out, took advance phone and internet orders for signed copies, and called his sales rep at the publisher to make sure the books would reach him in plenty of time.
“You’ve ordered 450 copies,” the rep told him. “I’m afraid we can only ship you 200.”
Why, for God’s sake? Hadn’t they printed enough?
“No, it’s policy,” he was told. “Two hundred books is our maximum order. We can’t take the chance of huge returns, or credit problems.”
“But the copies are sold,” the store owner said. “I’ve got prepaid orders for them, and I’ll pay in advance myself, and take them from you on a non-returnable basis. There’s no risk, and there won’t be any returns, and that’s 450 copies of…
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T. W. Dittmer 
What a crazy story! Thank goodness the bookseller was resourceful!
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Crazy is the right word. Good old Target came through.
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Definitely resourceful. Lawrence is fortunate to be with a good publisher. Thanks for the link.
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I’m going to share this with all my indie-publisher friends. 🙂
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Oh, it’s worth sharing. Very revealing. 🙂
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What a story. Turth IS stranger than fiction. Great post, Tim
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turth is stranger than truth
haha
sorry if I ofended you.
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