RJ Julia Booksellers Remove Espresso Book Machine

Sadly RJ Jula and OnDemandBooks.com have severed their partnership and the Espresso Book Machine, or EBM, has been sent off to a new location. There are no plans on a new EBM being available in the area or in Connecticut for that matter, leaving some authors with no local shop to send their readers for paperback copies of their books.

OnDemandBooks.com still has all of the books that were made a part of their expressnet service available on their website or other retailers and libraries with an EBM such as Harvard Book Store, Northshire Book Store in Vermont and the NYU Bookstore.

For me that means that my first novel The Pen & the Sword no longer has a Connecticut home. RJ Julia is trying to find a new partnership to help local sel published authors fulfill their dreams.

Personally, I will be seeking another option. I was not very happy with the way RJ Julia handled the situation with OnDemandBooks.com. As an author using the EBM at RJ Julia, I only found out the machine wasn't there anymore because I went in to order a run of my book and set up the printing side of the sequel, The Beautiful & the Damned. I had received no phone call, no email, no communication that the machine would be removed or that their was a problem with the two company's partnership. I still enjoy the atmosphere of RJ Julia, but their treatment of the people who PAID for the service of having their hard work featured in the book store was ethical in not informing them that there was a problem with the agreement and in not calling them individually when the EBM was no longer available.

I wish the best of luck to all the authors that lost this opportunity and hope that RJ Julia finds a way to continue helping independent authors in the future.