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The book Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation Edited by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson was published in March of 2020. Tragically the owner of the publishing company passed earlier this year, so I was never informed of the book's publication until I inquired about it this summer. I immediately purchased a box of books which I promptly sold (making it an AALBC bestseller for the upcoming period). I noticed the books were not in distribution and inquired about the remaining inventory. The family decided to shut down the publishing company (Konecky & Konecky) and were motivated to sell the books. I made an offer to buy out the entire inventory, and the following week a pallet of books were dropped of at my front door. Have you ever stored a pallet of books in your home? Fortunately, I have a two car garage and one small vehicle. Now, how the heck do I sell all of these books? Amazon has a $1.7T (yes trillion) market capitalization, and sells more printed books, online, than all other booksellers combined. At first glance it seems foolhardy to ignore Amazon as a platform to sell one's book. Well you can call me Troy "foolhardy" Johnson, because I'd rather give the books away than sell them on Amazon. Since I have a monopoly on this book, I can keep all new copies of this book off Amazon's site. The screen shoot of the book on Amazon, from October 12, 2020, below shows three used copies of the book on Amazon. There are three sellers of the book on Amazon and each sells has only one copy. I'll monitor Amazon to see if any of the copies I sell end up on Amazon as new. Other than a newsletter mention and a couple of social media posts I have not done much to push this book. I did have an ad running, but I took it down to make room for paid advertisers. Here is what I plan to do moving forward: I will create an affiliate program such that anyone who direct a reader to AALBC who buys the books will earn $5. $5 is a huge commission on the sale of a book retailing for $19.99. It will be interesting to see how this goes. I will also reach out to indie booksellers and offer them the book at a 60% discount and pay for shipping. Below is a video I created for the purpose. I have not shared the video yet. Lets see what happens.

Genius level work here! Taking a complex subject like the 3 branches of Government and making it plain is every writer’s dream. YelloPain does it well! Take that, Ice Cube!

Nice. I'm an hour and a half north of LA. Next time I'm down there, I'm going to stop in.

Preach! I will make a point of visiting and contributing to all of these forums and I will reference your article in my next eNewsletter. New registration for the Cocoa Lounge has been disabled. The Somalispot reaction to their inclusion on this list is interesting: http://www.somalispot.com/threads/5-best-black-forums-on-the-net-somalispot-made-the-list.19153/ it is hard to discern the trolls from the regular posters I did not bother post there. My first post of Black Visions was rejected. The message indicated the folder was full. I uploaded the image below and a couple of sentences about the image awards. The site is also very slow. I suspect it is the server they are using (a problem I'm very familiar with) Destee looks like the most interesting forum of the bunch. I read their rules and one struck me, "No Staying Here Complaining About How You Don't Like Us." At first glance, a rule like this would seem to make no sense, but if you've moderated a discussion forum you get it right away. :-) At any rate, I probably won't share the article as I original wrote. I simply can't vouch for all of the forums, but I will check out Destee and the Blackboard and share and interesting posts I discover from time to time. Sites like these are important to the variety of content available on the web.