At 09:52 AM 6/5/2002 -0500, Rachael Lininger wrote: > >No, Rachel explained what has caused the real crunch. > >I wish my parents could spell. Ooops. Sorry. >I was going to say that that was a while back (drugstore and airport >racks being of any use) and that the paperback market survived the >collapse of the ID channels, and then I realized I didn't know if that >was actually the case. Did sales actually survive, and the later >consolidations kill them; or did they never quite recover, and stagger >woozily to their extended demise? Good question. I don't know. I'm gonna try to talk Patrick into joining this list; he'd be the one to ask.