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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
I worked at a bookstore, too, for almost 20 years.
Many customers are often notoriously inaccurate, lazy, and dead-wrong.
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Reminds me of a passage from
The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley, where a group of booksellers are having a get-together and talking about their problems. One of them says:
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The book section of a department store doesn't get much chance to enjoy that tangential advertising, as Fruehling calls it. Why, when our interior decorating shark puts a few volumes of a pirated Kipling bound in crushed oilcloth or a copy of "Knock-kneed Stories," into the window to show off a Louis XVIII boudoir suite, display space is charged up against my department! Last summer he asked me for "something by that Ring fellow, I forget the name," to put a punchy finish on a layout of porch furniture. I thought perhaps he meant Wagner's Nibelungen operas, and began to dig them out. Then I found he meant Ring Lardner.
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In re Sawtelle: I bought it from Fictionwise mainly because it was a 100% rebate book and I was looking to get more for loading up my balance than just a pleasant feeling. I haven't read it yet, but it's nice to know it's sitting there if I ever feel appropriately lemming-like.
In re the NYT article, something I found interesting was the bit about the iPhone, where they mention that the iPhone e-reading programs account for nearly as many e-book sales as the Sony Reader, though still not as many as the Kindle.