At 3:43 AM -0400 25/10/2000, Tarr, Kevin wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andrea Leistra [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 2:17 AM
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>> Subject: RE: Score!
>>
>> On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Tarr, Kevin wrote:
>>
>> > A couple of weeks ago was in a Barnes & Noble that had two Banks
>> > books but were in a large print format, and three times the price of a
>> > regular paperback, or almost as much as the hardback probably cost.
>> Guess
>> > I'll have to order them.
>>
>> I think the only Banks SF in mass-market US paperback now is _Excession_
>> and maybe _Against a Dark Background_, and _Excession_ is the weakest
>> Culture book by far.
This is all very odd. You can usually find a good number of the Brit
paperbacks imported in most big bookstores here, and you used to be able to
get any Banks SF you wanted at _Nebula_, the local speciality store, before
it closed. The non-SF is not so rare here either, I've seen 3 or 4 titles
in used stores in the last year, and picked up _The Business_ for later
reading this weekend.
But even new, you can get lots of Banks at a place like Chapters or Indigo,
which are both megabookstore-type places here in Montreal . . . so while
I'm tempted to ask "Is it just that Barnes & Noble is the enemy of good
readin'?", I think that's too simplistic a reason. But why is it so hard to
find in the US and yet not so hard in Canada . . . or, at least, in
Montreal?
