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From: samson@h-sc1.UUCP (gregory samson)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: Support Small Bookstores
Message-ID: <577@h-sc1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 14:23:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: h-sc1.577
Posted: Thu Sep 26 14:23:01 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 1-Oct-85 07:52:38 EDT
References: <1355@hound.UUCP> <1613@brl-tgr.ARPA> <5577@fortune.UUCP> <1066@teklds.UUCP>
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Summary: 

In article <1066@teklds.UUCP> davidl@teklds.UUCP (David Levine) writes:
>
>I'm afraid that buying books at megachains such as Crown Books (and
>Waldenbooks and B. Dalton's) does have an effect on publishers.
>
>This effect is that only books that will sell millions of copies get
>published at all.  This means a diminished number of titles, a limit to
>experimentation in literature, and a glut of mediocre books by "name"
>authors while interesting new authors can't get published.
>
True.  There's little to be done, however, if you live in an area that offers
few small or used bookstores, than to go for the maximum discount that you
can get your hands on.  In the upstate NY area, there's Waldenbooks, with
the 15% on >=$15 for Otherworlds members, and there are general discount
paper-goods stores (with a constant 20% discount) and, to top it off, something
called the Discount Bookseller with discounts from 10% to 36%.  

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G. T. Samson
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gts@wjh12.ARPA or samson%{h-sc1,h-sc4}@harvard.ARPA


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