Re: How would you like bookstores to sell your books?

**A*@aol.com**

Jeff,

Do you have any creative ideas on how we could go about getting this fixed? 
It would seem that somehow we garden writers as a group would need to 
convince the book stores that this is in their best interest (ergo: in their 
customer's best interest). 

Cat

<< My biggest gripe about book stores is their policy to order a new book,
 let's say 5 or 10 copies, and then when those run out, there is no automatic
 reorder, all additional orders have to come from customers, one at a time.
 There needs to be a time factor built in.  If those ten books sell out in
 two weeks, that would tell me that this is a popular book and an automatic
 reorder of 5 or so is a good idea.  If those then sell out in two weeks, it
 is time to order 20.  The point here is that a gardening book that does
 initially very well has no chance to get up a load of steam and keep
 selling.  It's a very self defeating system and very discouraging.
 Later,

 Jeff Ball >>
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