IVIV (0) Dustjacket

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I was in a B&N the other day.  IV wasn't on the new fiction table, nor on the 20% off rack.  It was languishing farther back in the store on the 30% off rack, along with various crappy reads.  The ignominy!

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>

>
>I cannot speak to any real reasons why Gravity's Rainbow did not have the word "a novel" on it, but my guess is 1) they believed that there could be
>no real confusion then (the confusion feared is between fic and non-fic) 2) it would sell by the attention it would get--true---and there would be no confusion....[my true story: however, I found my copy---a hardback copy;
>I did not then know there was a simultaneous paperback copy and that this store, a Waldenbooks, had it low on a RACK! not on a table in the front. maybe the staff did NOT know to put it on the novel table?]
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