--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Patrick King
<abrasax93@...> wrote:
>
> If you put them
> in wire, rotating racks in stores where comics
and
> magazines are sold, in bus stations and airports,
etc;
> if you put them around like the old Dell
Paperbacks,
> and Gold Medal, and Ace, and Pyramid, you'd sell a
lot
> more copies.
Um, Patrick, I can't even remember the last time I saw a wire
spinner like the kind you're talking about. Certainly not in
this decade! Not sure about magazines, but comics ain't what
they used to be any more, as far as how they're marketed,
either. Can you even get them at convenience stores these
days? I haven't looked too hard recently, but I'm inclined to
think they've shifted very far toward the specialty shop end
of the spectrum. I've seen Charles mention in an interview
somewhere that he saw some Hard Case for sale at a truck
stop. I was pretty disappointed, I must say, not to find them
in any airport bookstores when I did some traveling
recently.
>Right now, you have no impulse market, at
> least where I live.
The only books I ever see placed for impulse buying these
days are
"inspirational." Blech--how depressing!
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