Work computer is too slow for Twitter, so:

[laceblade]

Today's bookstore task: Prepare the WisCon mass markets for stripping. #NOOOOOOOOO

ETA: OMG, which ones should I save by buying for myself?? Anyone think I would like Michelle West?

Comments

[starlady]

I think you might enjoy Michelle West, partly by comparison with GRRM. So yes: buy them!

[laceblade]

I ended up buying the first one (Broken Crown?) because I was searching people's tags and found your review of it, :D

I think I'll be bringing that and Feast for Crows to Japan with me!

[starlady]

Yay! Michelle West is awesome. Not wholly unproblematic, but awesome.

[jesse_the_k]

That is so damn sad. I can't think of another non-food industry which routinely destroys its output.

[bibliofile]

It's the frigging tax code. Food gets consumed. Everyone else must pay taxes on stuff in inventory every damn year.

[laceblade]

Well, it's also a waste of money for our store to own 18 copies of a book if we're only going to sell 1 one of them? From a business standpoint, we don't have the shelf space to keep all of them, and the publisher only wants the cover b/c by the time they paid to have it shipped back and then out again, they could have just printed another book.

It *is* wasteful! There are just....a few reasons for it, I guess.