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[Lois McMaster Bujold]

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Fri May 18 16:58:30 BST 2007

In a message dated 5/18/2007 11:46:28 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
lbujold at myinfmail.com writes:

I've  actually wondered if it will be good or bad for my sales to
have copies of  _Legacy_lingering in stores when the mad Potter frenzy
stampedes in and  out.  On the whole, I suspect good, if I can get the
stores to pay my  stock any attention at all.



M:
 
Do you have any cards for this one?  I for one would be willing to  make a
run to the B&N and put a handful of them on the HP display-- If not,  
would I be
offending anyone's copyrights, etc., if I made a lot of bookmark  sized
flyers and put them out on the HP table?
 
Mary


***  I suspect that would be going a bit too far.  Any bookstore 
employees or ex-employees in the List will doubtless chime in, but I 
suspect it would be regarded as annoying littering by the people who 
would be stuck cleaning it up and throwing it away.

No cute little cards for this one, or at least none I've been sent yet.  
The paperback of _Beguilement_ may be filling that niche, with its 
teaser sample in the back and what-not.

Bookmarks have never once sold me a book (anyone else?), so I am 
uncertain of their actual utility.  I think they may be one of those 
false promotional gimmicks, that make one think one is actually doing 
something when one isn't.   I'm trying to identify the stuff that has 
high pay-off for least effort -- such as posted reviews --  and avoid 
the wheel-spinning ones.  All help gratefully accepted in figuring out 
which is which, though.

Ta, L.