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The problem with books is: There are too many books and too little time to read them all.
… although to be fair about it, there are a lot of books I will never read simply because I have no interest in the topic… but then there are books I want to read and can’t find because they’re out of print.
Or are they?
An authour friend has a book that, according to one of the “Big Three” book store chains is “out of print.” Really? Not according to the publisher, and not according to the other two of the Big Three chain stores either.
… and not according to their on-line store. Well, one of their on-line stores anyway.
But their nation-wide in-store inventory system says it is out of print, and so to prove the point they returned hundreds of copies of the books to the publisher in the original cartons… unopened and untouched saved for the dust in the stockrooms of their stores, all because their invenytory system says so.
Another author that I regard highly has a similar problem… not with the stores but with her publisher. People write to the book publishing companies asking for the authors books… so the demand is there… but because the editor made an ‘editorial decision’ and said no, they’d rather loose the revenue than change their mind… but then ‘hold the option’ so that the author cannot take the story elsewhere.
The more I learn about publishing companies and editors, the more I think maybe a friend of mine has the right of it (about zombies and alligators, that is.)
Follow the link above and find out for yourself.
I apologise up front to any fellow Wiccans who read this post, but I can’t help being amused by the notice that the only Witch School in the United States is, or rather was, on the eBay auction block until someone ‘magycked’ the account.
The school itself, in downtown Hoopeston, Illinois is also up for sale. Apparently, the natives weren’t comortable about the idea that the equivalent of “Hogwarts” had come to the corn belt. Apparently they’re afraid they’d get turned into toads or some-such nonsense.
Whatever…
What really made me pay attention to this in the first place wasn’t corn-belter’s concerns over witches on the loose in downtown Hoopsetown. What made me pay attention was the back-stabbing politics and greed exhibited by some of the so-called leaders of Wicca over the ownership and operation of the school.
Bad form!
If we really wish people to understand Wicca and take us seriously, perhaps it might do to not behave like some of the other leaders of those so-called ‘legitimate’ faiths and act like you’re only in it for the bucks and the bimbo’s.
