Hi, Fred!
FR> JM> Why they don't take them, I don't know.  Do mystery fans
FR> JM> buy fewer used hardcovers than other used book buyers?
FR> FR>I find that is true for all sorts of hardback fiction, not just
FR>mysteries.
FR> FR>The usedbook stores now will take only out-of-print or old hb, or new
FR>ones
FR> FR>if the pb versions haven't come out yet.  Once the pb version appears 
on
FR> FR>the stands, the stores here won't take the hb versions.
FR> RJ> This doesn't seem to be true in Boulder County, Colorado.  "New" HBs
FR> RJ> are moving briskly in the used BS I go to.
FR>Is that after the pb version has come out?  Around here I can sell hbs 
until
FR>the pb version comes out, then I find it hard to get rid of.  Exceptions
FR>would be if there's a strong demand for the book.
Well, I'm not in the business but it doesn't seem to make much of a
difference here in what is stocked.  I, as a buyer, will often buy a
mystery in pb first then buy a good condition hb if I really liked it.
RussJ
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