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I can't get my hands on Lost in a Good Book
Posted by: Andrea (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: July 17, 2002 11:24AM
<HTML>Well the hard back at least. I've trogged round all the larger shops in Barnsley, Sheffield and other places in South Yorkshire and they all have the paperback but no sign of a hard back copy and they don't seem to be planning on getting any. I know I can buy it offline but... well it's just not the same as going into a shop and coming out with your nice little bag and that wonderful glow inside.
I have bought the paperback which I will be reading this weekend, I usually do this with books which I think I'll need as a loan copy, I do *not* loan my hard backs, not after losing some.
Anyway, is anyone else having problems getting their book? Ok, I know it's not actually due out till tomorrow but when you have a friend bouncing in Wales cos they have the book a month early, well... it's probably a good job they're in Wales that's all I can say. :-)
I am planning on going to one of the signings where I'm hoping there will be a hard back copy waiting specially for me. Anyone going to Abergavenny on the 23rd and want to meet up with some mad yorkshire folk (and the pain who has his book already) for a coffee after the signing? E-mail me and we'll make arrangements and work out somewhere to go.
Andrea</HTML>
I have bought the paperback which I will be reading this weekend, I usually do this with books which I think I'll need as a loan copy, I do *not* loan my hard backs, not after losing some.
Anyway, is anyone else having problems getting their book? Ok, I know it's not actually due out till tomorrow but when you have a friend bouncing in Wales cos they have the book a month early, well... it's probably a good job they're in Wales that's all I can say. :-)
I am planning on going to one of the signings where I'm hoping there will be a hard back copy waiting specially for me. Anyone going to Abergavenny on the 23rd and want to meet up with some mad yorkshire folk (and the pain who has his book already) for a coffee after the signing? E-mail me and we'll make arrangements and work out somewhere to go.
Andrea</HTML>
Re: I can't get my hands on Lost in a Good Book
Posted by: RALPH SPURRIER (---.www-cache.demon.co.uk)
Date: July 17, 2002 01:27PM
<HTML>Hi Andrea,
The reason you will not find hardbacks in retail stores is because all the big chains are so blinkered that they think no-one will want the hardback if there is a simultaneous paperback. Unfortunately the publishers tend to go down this path as well. It's only the fact that the specialist booksellers like myself have spread the word that a hardback is at all available. Given half a chance most publishers would ditch hardbacks altogether (Michael Joseph have already taken that step now that Dick Francis has stopped writing and they can fool the new writers coming along that no-one is interested in hardbacks any more. How wrong can they be?). The 4500 hardback copies of LOST IN A GOOD BOOK have been snapped up. Of the 1200 copies I had delivered here I have just 20 left. If the chain stores want to hand over this market to me I am more than delighted to take over the business.</HTML>
The reason you will not find hardbacks in retail stores is because all the big chains are so blinkered that they think no-one will want the hardback if there is a simultaneous paperback. Unfortunately the publishers tend to go down this path as well. It's only the fact that the specialist booksellers like myself have spread the word that a hardback is at all available. Given half a chance most publishers would ditch hardbacks altogether (Michael Joseph have already taken that step now that Dick Francis has stopped writing and they can fool the new writers coming along that no-one is interested in hardbacks any more. How wrong can they be?). The 4500 hardback copies of LOST IN A GOOD BOOK have been snapped up. Of the 1200 copies I had delivered here I have just 20 left. If the chain stores want to hand over this market to me I am more than delighted to take over the business.</HTML>
Re: I can't get my hands on Lost in a Good Book
Posted by: Andrea (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: July 18, 2002 06:07AM
<HTML>I know what you mean, this is why I haven't just given in and bought it from Amazon or wherever and why I keep going in bookshops and demanding it. Hopefully they may get the idea they have lost a sale. Though some are so blinkered they don't realise it's bad customer policy.
What I don't understand is why they (Jasper's publishers) have had to do this, the bringing them out on the same day I mean. Surely you sell more hard backs if people can't wait for the paperback. Bringing them out on the same day seems to defeat the object.
Anyway if anyone is going to be at Abergavenny on Tuesday look out for a woman with a teenage daughter with long blonde hair on crutches and a small Welsh bloke and a very tall English bloke (who'd make an excellent Pratchett's Cohan the Barbarian) and come over and say hi! :-)
muttermutterthatshopbetterhavehardbacksthat'sallIcansaymuttermumble
Andrea (off to Essex via Ely now to bother more book stores)</HTML>
What I don't understand is why they (Jasper's publishers) have had to do this, the bringing them out on the same day I mean. Surely you sell more hard backs if people can't wait for the paperback. Bringing them out on the same day seems to defeat the object.
Anyway if anyone is going to be at Abergavenny on Tuesday look out for a woman with a teenage daughter with long blonde hair on crutches and a small Welsh bloke and a very tall English bloke (who'd make an excellent Pratchett's Cohan the Barbarian) and come over and say hi! :-)
muttermutterthatshopbetterhavehardbacksthat'sallIcansaymuttermumble
Andrea (off to Essex via Ely now to bother more book stores)</HTML>
Re: I can't get my hands on Lost in a Good Book
Posted by: talpianna (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: July 18, 2002 10:20AM
<HTML>Why is the long blonde hair on crutches? Surely a barrette or a set of combs would be more efficient.</HTML>
Re: I can't get my hands on Lost in a Good Book
Posted by: Andrea (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: July 18, 2002 07:26PM
<HTML>Picture Cousin It on crutches and you get the idea, though she has just had it cut, it was about waist length before.
Andrea</HTML>
Andrea</HTML>
Re: I can't get my hands on Lost in a Good Book
Posted by: wednesday born (198.179.227.---)
Date: September 19, 2002 10:54AM
<HTML>finchley road books etc still has loads</HTML>
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