On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:31:58PM -0500, Chris Turkel <zizban at adelphia.net> wrote: > 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. If I own the bookstore, I don't have to put it on the shelf to read my copy. :) (But this is my understand of what happens as well -- if the bookstore is caught; there are ways around it, such as, for example, their misfiling the release date, or calling me about a reserve copy before it is officially released, or simple bribery). -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt