On 6 Aug 96 Jan Murphy said this about that to Sam Waring:
 SW>>      Jan did you just not care for Crispin, or are you having trouble
 SW>> finding them?  AFAIK, just about everything of his is O/P (AGAIN!).
 JM> No, Crispin is on the 'just haven't gotten around to looking for them'
 JM> list. Thanks for the information -- I'll be on the lookout now.
     Glad to.  He's one of my real favorite mystery authors, and I sure 
wish he hadn't taken that twenty-year vacation.  Another four or five or 
so Fen novels would have been very welcome.
 JM> Speaking of stuff being out of print, this is probably a good
 JM> opportunity to remind people that books, at least in the US, have a
 JM> shorter and shorter 'shelf life' these days.  
     I'll say "Amen" to that!  When I talk to my customers, I usually 
quote them an in-print life of three years if it's hardback, and as you 
say, mass markets can disappear in 90 to 180 days.
 JM> Of course you know this already, Sam, but maybe others don't realize 
 JM> that some paperbacks can go out of print in as little as 90 days, and 
 JM> the publisher isn't always ready to reprint them when they do.  
     Seems to me that publishers *usually* aren't ready to reprint MMs,  
particularly the Ace/Berkley family (Avon and Ballantine ain't much 
shakes, either).
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