Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Jim Joyce, books, vendor booths, etc.
Message-ID: <1989Jun20.162447.381@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <7552@hoptoad.uucp> <57038@uunet.UU.NET> <15866@vail.ICO.ISC.COM>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 16:24:47 GMT

In article <15866@vail.ICO.ISC.COM> rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn) writes:
>... it's not clear to me that "buying a booth" makes any sense to a book-
>seller.  They're obviously NOT in the same league as hardware and software
>vendors.  What does a bookseller booth do?  You can't sell books there ...

A bookseller can do what HCR did, for different reasons:  buy a "virtual
booth", paying the fee but not actually occupying any space on the show
floor.  This gets you a slot in the vendor directory, the right to put up
signs in well-defined places, etc., without having to actually man a booth
or observe the show-floor restrictions.

Cucumber Books was at Usenix (in a suite in the Sheraton) and selling,
without (as far as I know) any of Jim's undiplomatic tactics.  I bought
from them.
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