On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 04:38:08PM -0500, Crystal Fradette <sethra500 at gmail.com> wrote: > 1) Why did they sell book 1 and 3 and not 2? and I suspect that when a new book in a series comes out, people in general have two behaviors: 1) They buy the new book, perhaps not recognizing it is part of a series or perhaps being fans who already own the prior novels. 2) They recognize that it is a series, and buy the first book of that series. The number of people who will buy only the 2nd book in a series when the third book has just come out is presumably a very small number. > 2) Who buys just book 2 and not the other ones? People like you, the next time they are in a bookstore, since you now have books 1 and 3. -- Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/ Politics: http://triggerfinger.org/ Literature: http://speculativefiction.org/ Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt