/lit/ - Literature

What would happen if I got /fit/, dressed up as a fireman or lumberjack, and walked into this store?

>>11468042
No.

>>11468042
>Is this ok?
Only as the premise of a novel about their incestuous relationship.

>>11468059
>a novel about their incestuous relationship

A tale of forbidden love in the bookstore

>>11468042
what were the odds of their last name being koch?

All romance novels written in the last 100 years should be burned

>>11468046
You'd fit in.

>>11468042
>disabled doggo
>aesthetic but meaningless cards conviniently found in shot to show off owner's progressive mindset
>only romance in its degenerate, modern female-centred definition
>rustic wooden shelf painted white
>books hanging from the roof
>"used"
They'll do well.

(((Koch)))

>>11468909

>>11468903
>aesthetic cards mean you're progressive
wut?

>>11468914
Yeah, but what is the point though?

>>11468046
So basically what if you were a nu-male?

>>11468042
>(((Koch)))

>>11468042
*snap* They are going into my cringe compilation.

>>11469220
idk bro the koch bros are protestant dutch

>>11468042
>>11468068
They look like a couple of ugly Jewesses.

Yeah, I don't care. Plenty of specialty bookstores out there, I don't have to visit them.

>>11468042

The left one is cute :)

>>11468042
That sounds like hell. Romance is the worst genre fiction.
>>11468072
This

https://www.therippedbodicela.com/state-racial-diversity-romance-publishing-report

wew lad

>>11468909
Koch means cook in German. They might be of either Protestant or Roman Catholic ancestry.

I wouldn't go there. in a way, I'd much rather if all romance novels had their seperate shithole like this. Also these women look happy so whatever

>>11471674
>They might be of Protestant ancestry

Spooky

>>11468919
Read the cards you dumb cunt, don't select random words to strawman someone when we can see both your posts simultaneously (on one screen) and their difference.

>>11468046

They'd rip your bodice bro.

>>11468042
But do they carry Lolita?

>>11468042
>Niche audience boutique store built in the middle of the LA Metro area
>Sisters are from somewhat prestigious universities
Place looks like it exists more to be novel and twee than for any sort of passion for the genre. Even if romance is a genre that skews awful, at least it could be something made out of genuine passion, but this obviously isn't it. They obviously built this place with their parents' money after spending a few aimless years looking for something to do with their lives after graduating with useless degrees. It will do well in response to the publicity because, again, novel and twee, but whenever the next economic downturn comes around, it will collapse. They'll both be very sad, and they'll be insulated from all financial consequences with daddy's money.

>>11468068
younger one is married
>>NOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>11468042
yes women and children of single moms crave sex drama, sex scenes, and sex secrets, so they will earn money

>real men read austen

>>11468042
If the bookshop idea doesn't work out, they could turn it into a cafe without too much change. That'll really bring in the hipsters, gay men, and fat bitches who make up their primary clientele. Have a poetry night where middle-class feminists come in and complain about their periods are oppressed. I can fucking see it already. Absolutely disgusting.

"Zowie," the romance author Deborah Macgillivray wrote on Twitter last month after she discovered copies of her 2009 novel, "One Snowy Knight," being offered for four figures. One was going for "$2,630.52 & FREE Shipping," she noted. Since other copies of the paperback were being sold elsewhere on Amazon for as little as 99 cents, she was perplexed. "How many really sell at that price? Are they just hoping to snooker some poor soul?" Ms. Macgillivray wrote in an email. She noted that her blog had gotten an explosion in traffic from Russia. "Maybe Russian hackers do this in their spare time, making money on the side," she said.

Amazon is by far the largest marketplace for both new and used books the world has ever seen, and is also one of the most inscrutable. The retailer directly sells some books, while others are sold by third parties. The wild pricing happens with the latter. [...] Third-party sellers, Guru Hariharan, chief executive of Boomerang Commerce, said, come in all shapes and sizes -- from well-respected national brands that are trying to maintain some independence from Amazon to entrepreneurial individuals who use Amazon's marketplace as an arbitrage opportunity. These sellers list products they have access to, adjusting price and inventory to drive profits. Then there are the wild pricing specialists, who sell both new and secondhand copies.

"By making these books appear scarce, they are trying to justify the exorbitant price that they have set," said Mr. Hariharan, who led a team responsible for 15,000 online sellers when he worked at Amazon a decade ago. [...] A decade ago, Elisabeth Petry wrote a tribute to her mother, the renowned novelist Ann Petry. "At Home Inside," published by the University of Mississippi Press, is now out of print, but late last week secondhand copies were for sale on Amazon. A discarded library copy was $1,900. One seller offered two copies, each for $1,967, although only one was described as "Nice!" All these were a bargain compared with the copy that cost $2,464.

>>11471265
I am not in the least bit shocked.

>>11468068
>never seduce a Scot
pretty good advice desu

>real men read austen
I was bored to tears when I started Pride and Prejudice. Real men read Lee Child and James Clavell.