On 05 Nov 96 Suzze Tiernan said this about that to Sam Waring:
 SW>> Well, I've gone all retro and picked up Frances and Richard
 SW>> Lockridge's DEAD AS A DINOSAUR, from 1952.  A book-club copy came into
 SW>> the  bookstore, and while I was brodarting the remnants of the dust
 SW>> jacket, I  read the blurb and it sounded interesting enough that I
 SW>> thought to give it  a try.  
 SW>> Letcha know what I thought of it once I'm done.
 ST> Please do. 
     It didn't send me any great thrill; I thought the ending had a bit 
too much French bedroom farce and not nearly enough suspense to it.  
Although I finished the book, it was more out of a sense of duty than 
anything else.  I wouldn't recommend it, much.
 ST> You work/own a used book store? I convinced the owner of our store to
 ST> let us start doing some used books as an experiment.
 
     I work at one; I'm the Oldest Living Employee (12 years as a part-
timer).  We used to be trade books and newsstand only; about two years ago 
we started doing some used stock as well.  I was having a fine time a 
couple of months ago when I tried going out to buy stock at weekend garage 
sales for about a month; paying twenty-five or fifty cents for a hardback, 
instead of two dollars, makes it a lot easier to price relatively low and 
still make a reasonable amount on the book.  However, the manager told me 
to stop because she thought we were getting overbought, so I had to quit 
having that kind of fun. B-{(###  I'm waiting to see what happens through 
the holidays and whether we can unload some of the excess, and maybe I can 
start buying in some of the categories that turn well (like fiction, 
biography and cookbooks) by spring.  Meantime, I'm Brodarting djs like 
crazy, since it seems that a Brodart cover on a beat-up dj makes a book 
much more likely to sell--the whole book doesn't look so tatty any more, 
you see.  I've had a number of times where a sound copy with a battered dj 
sat on the shelf for months, but after I brodart the dj, hey presto!  The 
book sells in a week or two.  I figure it's a pretty cheap way to improve 
turnover. 
... Cheops' Law: Nothing *ever* gets built on schedule or within budget.
--- PPoint 2.02
---------------