I can always find Hard Case Crime novels at my local
bookstores, especially the "big box" stores, Borders and
Barnes & Noble. The latest ones are usually featured
prominently in a display of newly-released mystery
novels.
~ Darrell
----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick King" <
abrasax93@yahoo.com> To: <
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, October 14,
2007 5:10 PM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Short and cheap
> In fairness, though, Charles, how do you market
Hard
> Case Crimes? I live in northern Massachusetts and
buy
> all my Hard Case books through Amazon. They're
simply
> not available in stores. I've never seen them in
a
> book store in this neck of the woods. If you put
them
> in wire, rotating racks in stores where comics
and
> magazines are sold, in bus stations and airports,
etc;
> if you put them around like the old Dell
Paperbacks,
> and Gold Medal, and Ace, and Pyramid, you'd sell a
lot
> more copies. Right now, you have no impulse market,
at
> least where I live. Maybe they're all over New
York
> City, but in the burbs, if you don't already
know
> about Hard Case Crime, you're not likely to
learn
> about these books.
>
> Patrick King
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