On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 07:53:43PM -0700, lazarus wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 21:56:04 -0400, I wrote:
>
> >Which mirrors what happened with PoTD. Sigh. Borders used to be
> >the best bookstore in the Midwest, bar none. Now that they're a
> >chain they've gone considerably downhill.
>
> Is it possibly a distributor issue? Does B&N have different deals
> with different distributors from Borders?
Yes, they do. One of Borders features used to be their excellent deals
with distributors, usually ensuring that they got theirs faster and more
reliably than anyone else. Whoever was managing that is long gone from
that position, and their replacements have not been able to keep up
the same quality.
--
"You are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer."
J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, in
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2998198.stm>