quote:Originally posted by Peregrinus: And it doesn't take all that much money to ... include it in a 15- or 30-second TV spot to inform about new publications...
I'd beg to differ.
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Besides, all one has to do to be informed on all the Star Trek books coming out in the next YEAR or so is to check out the psiphi.org website.
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Total audience, sure. But of the people who actually buy these kinds of books, I'd say we constitute a fairly sizable percentage. Not a majority, to be sure. But sizable.
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Ok; I've just seen this new book: The Starfleet Survival Guide (or something similar). Now, no offense to the author, who I'm sure put in lots of hard work, but I had a flick through and it looks, well, boring. thee doesn't appear to be much in it, all the pics are b&w line drawings and there's an entire segment on how to escape from a lift! How do TPTB decide what books will sell better than others because I would have thought that Unseen Fronteir would sell much better than this.
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It's probably all politics. Mojo probably pissed off Marco Palmieri or Margaret Clark or John Ordover and so they aren't going to publish his book.
absolute shame.
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Yeah, these are surely the only possible answers! Dark conspiracies personally aimed at keeping us down! We have shown them!
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quote:Originally posted by Sol System: Yeah, these are surely the only possible answers! Dark conspiracies personally aimed at keeping us down! We have shown them!
It's good we all agree then.
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