The Moral Of This Story Is That When You See A Bestselling Novel You Want To Read At The Supermarket

[redbrunja]

for  4$, you buy it, because otherwise you are going to have to wait for the 35 people who put a hold on Girl With The Dragon Tattoo before you to read one of the four copies the public library owns.

And in some insane twist of economics, despite it being a best-selling novel which means there must be hoards of copies out there, no one is selling it for 1.50$ on amazon.com.

Comments

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

I wish we lived near each other. I now work at a book-printing company and I have helped print probably about 200,000 copies of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I could have gotten you a free copy.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

Still, working at a printing factory is a really cool job. Are you able to snag a free book before it's published if it looks interesting?

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

Not as cool as it sounds - it's actually an exhausting, tedious, dirty, awful job that has already alerted me to my own privilege of having access to a college education so I can escape ever having to have a job like this again. Basically, I'm working on a hot, grimy factory floor, standing in one place and lifting large heavy bundles of papers into machines for eight hours.

Nevertheless, I do have access to a lot of mass market books before they are released. Since most bestsellers come out in hardcover before they're released in mass market paperback, I don't really get the Big Ones before they're released, but the employees do have access to free book samples, and if those are taken, one can sometimes snag a copy out of the Dumpster that was torn or improperly bound but still readable. I think my best find was a preview copy (an uncorrected proof they send as a sample to bookstores before actual publishing) of the next Christopher Moore vampire romance, Bite Me.

Sadly, I take home loads of books every week, but due to the job itself, I have no time to read them. D|

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Not as cool as it sounds - it's actually an exhausting, tedious, dirty, awful job that has already alerted me to my own privilege of having access to a college education so I can escape ever having to have a job like this again. Basically, I'm working on a hot, grimy factory floor, standing in one place and lifting large heavy bundles of papers into machines for eight hours.

Yeah, that does sound pretty not-fun.

And I've read Bite Me - it's a hoot!

Sadly, I take home loads of books every week, but due to the job itself, I have no time to read them. D|

Isn't that always the way?

[arquileon.livejournal.com]

I'm reading the sequel right now!

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Lucky!

[sureasdawn.livejournal.com]

Don't hate me because I threw a copy of it away in the strip bin two days ago...

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

It hurtssss to hear it precioussssss.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Unrelated, but possibly pertinent to your recent post about westerns: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375832475/ref=pd_luc_mri?ie=UTF8&m=A1ICRADMD6ME5L

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Totally pertinent!

I put it on my wishlist.