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From: roy@gitpyr.UUCP (Roy J. Mongiovi)
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Subject: Paperback "Door into Shadow"
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Date: Fri, 17-May-85 18:45:31 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 17 18:45:31 1985
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Well, I picked up the paperback version of "The Door into Shadow" by
Diane Duane this past week.  I was startled to find, when I got it
home, that this is the sequel to "The Door into Fire" which will be
released in August.  Is this something new, or have I been asleep?
I thought the usual way is to publish volume 1 first, and then
follow it up with volume 2, not vice versa....

Is this a new way to sucker money out of us?  Did the publisher
take statistics and determine that it wasn't good enough to just
split single novels up into several volumes to make more bucks?
(As an aside, I bet that if "The Lord of the Rings" was published
 today it would be in five volumes instead of three.  Sigh.)
Maybe too many people buy volume 1 and then decided not to read
volume 2.  What gives?
-- 
Roy J. Mongiovi.	Office of Computing Services.		User Services.
Georgia Institute of Technology.	Atlanta GA  30332.	(404) 894-6163
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