"Scott Ingram" <singram at videotron.ca> writes: > Okay, still getting used to this email list; I responded to a previous email > directly to Mr. Brust, not the list. > > I gather by 'jobbers and wholesalers' you're referring to small bookstores > and their ilk? I can understand why this upsets people, but I don't > understand how this would affect paperback sales. Is it the case that the > larger chains are pushing the top-ten authors (Clancy, King, etc...) and not > stocking the lesser known authors? Or is it that their increased buying > power is forcing publishers to sell their wares at a lower price? No, jobbers and wholesalers are the ones who stock wire racks in airports and supermarkets and newsstands and drugstores. And bookstores do also buy from them. One of the biggest national ones is called "Ingram's", amusingly enough given who asked the question (I'm guessing no relation in this case). -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing list, see http://dragaera.info