JM> Well, here's the bookseller's dilemma.
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JM> Now what do we do with the books by McCrumb which are neither
JM> mystery or SF?
LOL! Now that is a quandary. So far they are more like mysteries than
SF, but who knows?
JM> Ideally, we'd like the fans of writer X to be able to find these
JM> books and buy them if they tickle their fancy.  If they don't know
JM> that writer X has written in other categories, they won't go looking
JM> in the other section.  If we put up signs (shelf-talkers, as they
JM> are called in the trade) directing readers to the other sections, we
JM> will have so many shelf-talkers, they'll just become a big blur and
JM> customers won't read them.
JM> So what's a bookseller to do?
Almost sounds like you have to go back to mixing them up, but knowing
how much I hate wading through the "Fiction" section of the Hamilton
catalog to find the mysteries they hide in there, that's no solution!
Hmm.  You don't do used books do you?  You don't have a lead on any of
Patricia Wentworth's romances, do you? I hear she wrote quite a few, but
so far I've only been able to find one historical one.
... There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.
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