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From: dhosek@mimir.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.)
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Subject: Books by distance (was Re: new PostScript book!)
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Date: 29 Aug 90 16:09:03 GMT
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In article <1990Aug28.125543.25097@eci386.uucp>, jmm@eci386.uucp (John Macdonald) writes...
->In article <254@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes:

->|I always wanted to get a copy of as many green books as I could find
->|and put them all on the shelf with the Green Book somewhere in the
->|middle of all of them.  Like so many other things in life, I never got
->|around to it.

->My wife used to work at a used book store.  One of the unusual (and
->profitable) types of regular orders that they would receive came from
->the people who furnish model suites for house construction projects.
->They would order "3 yards of green" or similar shelf space x colour
->combinations.  They don't expect anyone to read the books, but they
->want them to fit in with the room's decor!  Because of the lack of
->intent to actually *read* the books, this is a gold mine for the
->book store ("Now what has been sitting on the shelves so long that
->we know we can't sell it any other way...?").

When I was in College Station back in June, I was in a bookstore
(Half-Price Books, I think) that had a sign advertising "Books by
the Yard". I was tempted to steal it (the main thing keeping me
from it was the store employer a few feet away).

-dh

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