A small slice of market research. Stopped by one of my local B&N stores and they have sold the 3 copies they originally got of GHOST SHIP and have reordered, but the sales person I talked to said only one has come in. Don't know if they ordered more or just the one that arrived in today's delivery and was waiting to be unpacked. They at least featured the first three on the shelf of newly arrived hardbacks in the SF section but I of course thought they should have put it up on the display you see of new hardbacks just as you come in to the store. After all it is the lead Baen hardcover for this month and 3 copies seemed a pretty puny order, but that's what both B&N stores that are local to me were sent. I think the Baen marketing division needs to do some work with the B&N division that decides how many copies are to be sent to the bricks and mortar stores, but of course you all don't have any control at all over that end of the marketing chain.
Looking at which publishing houses that had new hardcovers which were featured on the display you see immediately upon entering the store, Baen had no featured titles at all. Of course the new George Martin was heavily featured but we Lee and Miller fans are firmly convinced that GHOST SHIP deserves high billing too!
FYI, if you do pass this on to the Baen marketing folks, these stores are in the Reston and Fair Lakes area of Fairfax County in Virginia. B&N needs more than a pathetic one or two copies to show in stock of a newly released, long awaited title like GHOST SHIP!
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Date: 2011-08-11 04:37 pm (UTC)Looking at which publishing houses that had new hardcovers which were featured on the display you see immediately upon entering the store, Baen had no featured titles at all. Of course the new George Martin was heavily featured but we Lee and Miller fans are firmly convinced that GHOST SHIP deserves high billing too!
FYI, if you do pass this on to the Baen marketing folks, these stores are in the Reston and Fair Lakes area of Fairfax County in Virginia. B&N needs more than a pathetic one or two copies to show in stock of a newly released, long awaited title like GHOST SHIP!
Anne in Virginia