In article <20020605010755.26891.00001693@mb-mn.aol.com>, DilbertPerkins <dilbertperkins@aol.com> wrote:

>It seems to be a lie. Most bookstores will not carry Dianetics, and many will
>not order it. I frequent many bookstores, and the only one I know to carry
>Dianetics in SoCal is Borders, occasionally Vromans (but they have a
>$cientologist on their staff). You can find HUNDREDS of copies on any given
>day in used bookstores -- and many of these will no longer carry books by L Ron
>Hubbard because 'they don't sell.' When I worked for a well-know bookstore
>chain in the '80s, our store would not carry any titles by L Ron Hubbard after
>the Battlefield Earth fiasco.

Its probably not a lie. Its just not what you think it is.

A small magazine store I patronized for years always had Dumbanetics on the rack. It never sold. Every so often, the flyblown copies were removed, the covers torn off and the rest dumped and the covers turned in for credit. And new copies would be placed on the racks.One of the guys runnig the store could not remember anybody actually buying a copy.

But they were sold. To the distributer. Obviously, Co$ had cut them a good deal. They made good money if it sold or did not. And this kept it on the shelves. But the real final buyer was Co$. Not the distributer, who just pocketed the cash from their agreement with bridge publishing.

A few "Writers of the Future" series also went on the shlf and apparently occasionally sold.

But the general public certainly was not buying Dianetics.

A dozen copies a year in the dumpster times 1000 bookstores is about 12000 a year, times 5 years is about 60,000.

How long can they keep paying to do stuff like this?

Pope Charles
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