On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 09:02 PM, Matthew Hunter wrote: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:04:12PM -0500, Claire Rojstaczer > <ambyrglow at softhome.net> wrote: >>> Matthew Hunter said: >>> Not when I've found a bookstore (which shall remain nameless to >>> protect the innocent) that still has it listed as a November >>> release. The books have to be delivered early in order to have a >>> coordinated release, and if the employees don't know enough not >>> to give it to me right off the delivery vehicle... >>> Someday I will run a bookstore for exactly this reason. >> Which reason? So you can get them right off the delivery vehicle, or >> so you can prevent your employees from selling them in such a >> fashion, thereby continuing the torment of those not in such a >> priviledged position? > > Both. I had a friend who worked barnes and noble and he told me that if the bookstore put a book on the shelf before the release date they get fined by the publisher, whatever that means. --- "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." -Albert Einstein