#1 One spin-off too many
#2 Books with coloured pages
#3 Books that don't fit on any regular bookshelf
#Books that have to be pulped once their subjects turn out to be a deeply dodgy probable rapist. Or Matthew Johns.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
REMAINDERS OF THE DAY
Discount bookshops are a hunting ground of both pleasure and pain for me, a soon-to-be-published author, and independent bookshop employee. To see all those unsold/returned/unsellable books stacked up, it tends to break your heart a bit. Still, there are reasons books end up in the discount pile. My most recent trip to Brisbane's biggest discount book graveyard reminded me of a few of them...
#1 One spin-off too many
#2 Books with coloured pages
#3 Books that don't fit on any regular bookshelf
#Books that have to be pulped once their subjects turn out to be a deeply dodgy probable rapist. Or Matthew Johns.
#1 One spin-off too many
#2 Books with coloured pages
#3 Books that don't fit on any regular bookshelf
#Books that have to be pulped once their subjects turn out to be a deeply dodgy probable rapist. Or Matthew Johns.
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6 comments:
the first one looks like someone has tried to build a fort, which is probably a good use for them. Poor Dr Karl!
what a very sobering post ... sent a shiver down my spine
Where in Brisbane is this discount shop?
Now that would be telling, and depriving Dr Karl of much-needed royalty cheques.
Hey, I work in a bookstore so plenty of authors get a large chunk of my hard-earned cash. Let me in on the secret so I don't send myself totally broke. :(
To find this shop, first you must unravel a series of clues, each more devious than the last.
Or just go to Cnr Queen & Edward Sts. Knock yourself out on unsold Trade Paperbacks!
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