[Doc Faustus]

Amazon doesn't really do promotion for small presses. There isn't much money in it for them. I should probably bring up some of the reviews of these books. Thank you for the suggestion. I really have no clue what to do about the Amazon blog. The no promotions thing is really just the tip of the iceberg. The prejudice we have to deal with goes way beyond that. I held a copy of my book in my hand, a book that was on shelves at a Borders about three miles away and had a Barnes and Noble employee tell me it did not exist. I had a friend who was told by a Borders district manager to "stay away from vanity presses" when he tried to get his book, published by Eraserhead, a press whose books have gotten blurbs from people ranging from Warren Ellis to Lloyd Kaufman, on the shelves. Everything we do we have do for ourselves and in spite of the ignorance and myopia of booksellers.