Mauled.... Again!
Dec. 15th, 2009 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseI spent this morning at my least favorite place (the Mall) again. Worse, the place I went to *cough*theLEGOstore*cough* didn't have what I was looking for. (I'd say, but it's a secret and Mason might read it here.)
Plus, I decided I hate the Mall's Barnes & Noble. Specifically. More precisely I hate the people in the children's department, but I think maybe it extends to all the book buyers. Here's the thing. I'm looking for a particular book to buy for a friend. The book is NOT out of print, but it isn't very THIS year, shall we say (although a book in this series did come out this year.) Are there copies of any of the books in this series at the Mall's B&N? No. In fact, I got a very snotty, "Oh, [author's name]... no, we wouldn't have any of those." Like what, because it's more than a day old it's to DIRTY for your store???
What I hate is that in terms of floor space/shelf space for books B&N has an embarrassment of riches. They have a lot of room. Much more, than say Uncle Hugo's, our local, independent SF/F speciality bookstore. Yet Don manages to find space for more than the most recent book in a series... heck, he finds space for out-of-print books like mine. I would probably be wrong about this, but I would bet that Don probably shelves more books than some B&Ns.
I'm also irritated by the fact that certain series, of course, like Twilight and other hot sellers, take up a disproportionate part of B&N's floor space. But there are Twilight plushy dolls, calendars, board games, book bags, toothbrushes....
I'm mad because I went to the Mall for two things and I walked out with neither. But it also irritates me as an author, because I know that even my Tate books are often hard to find at a B&N because they aren't this week's "it" thing. Tall, Dark & Dead is still in print as far as I know, but you won't find it at the Mall.
Man.
Anyway, that's my rant for the day. I'm off to work on my editoral notes for ALMOST, so I can get those off my plate and on to more important things (like RESURRECTION CODE.)
Plus, I decided I hate the Mall's Barnes & Noble. Specifically. More precisely I hate the people in the children's department, but I think maybe it extends to all the book buyers. Here's the thing. I'm looking for a particular book to buy for a friend. The book is NOT out of print, but it isn't very THIS year, shall we say (although a book in this series did come out this year.) Are there copies of any of the books in this series at the Mall's B&N? No. In fact, I got a very snotty, "Oh, [author's name]... no, we wouldn't have any of those." Like what, because it's more than a day old it's to DIRTY for your store???
What I hate is that in terms of floor space/shelf space for books B&N has an embarrassment of riches. They have a lot of room. Much more, than say Uncle Hugo's, our local, independent SF/F speciality bookstore. Yet Don manages to find space for more than the most recent book in a series... heck, he finds space for out-of-print books like mine. I would probably be wrong about this, but I would bet that Don probably shelves more books than some B&Ns.
I'm also irritated by the fact that certain series, of course, like Twilight and other hot sellers, take up a disproportionate part of B&N's floor space. But there are Twilight plushy dolls, calendars, board games, book bags, toothbrushes....
I'm mad because I went to the Mall for two things and I walked out with neither. But it also irritates me as an author, because I know that even my Tate books are often hard to find at a B&N because they aren't this week's "it" thing. Tall, Dark & Dead is still in print as far as I know, but you won't find it at the Mall.
Man.
Anyway, that's my rant for the day. I'm off to work on my editoral notes for ALMOST, so I can get those off my plate and on to more important things (like RESURRECTION CODE.)