Business first, in answer to pleas for a list. Below are the books affected by Amazon’s new Minimum List Price Rule. Note that these are PAPER BOOKS ONLY, and yes those would be CHAPbooks.
NOTE: CHAPBOOKS. Because in Olden Times such things were thin, cheap pamphlets and/or small books and they were sold by traveling vendors called CHAPmen. CHAPmen sold CHAPbooks. The name stuck even when chapbooks became pamphlets/small books self-published by philosophers, poets, and impoverished writers, to distinguish them from, err, real books.
So, once more, the list below includes the Pinbeam Books chapbooks in paper, only. Prices on these items are going up (“Love in an Elevator” is playing in the background — no, really. This morning’s soundtrack has been pretty good.) ON MONDAY, May 19 2025.
Ebook prices remain (for the moment) unaffected.
The Gift of Magic
Courier Run
Surfside
Shout of Honor
Degrees of Separation
Legacy Systems
Change Management
Heirs to Trouble
Sleeping with the Enemy
Fortune’s Favors
Due Diligence
Ambient Conditions
Moon’s Honor
Technical Details
Spell Bound
Cultivar
The Gate that Locks the Tree
I always wondered where the term Chapbook came from, now I know thank you very much.
I’m pretty sure I owe most of the affected titles already.
Just to round out the information on the term “chapbook,” I offer this quote lifted from our most common online reference work: “The first element of chapman comes in turn from Old English c?ap ‘barter’, ‘business’, ‘dealing’, from which the modern adjective cheap was ultimately derived.” I too own most of these titles, and since I am still under constraint to downsize, I’m afraid I cannot “afford” to add more to my collection. 🙁