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>When you've seen one Borders, you've seen them all.
Not necessarily. For example, the Borders store on Fair Oaks Blvd.,
Sacramento, has a fairly good selection of books by local authors, not
available in other Borders stores. They are self-published or micro-press
books of local or regional interest, or of interest to the store because
they are by local authors. I suspect that other Borders stores might
likewise have their own local-author selections. (Regional or local
considerations can also influence what the local store actually stocks
among larger-press books.)
Some of those self-published and micro-press books are quite good, and some
superb -- just not widely available, or primarily of local or regional
interest. (Many are mediocre to awful, of course, but those are not likely
to get into even the local store.)
By the way -- for anyone here who might have ordered Kiyo Sato's Dandelion
Through the Crack, which I had mentioned in a previous post, be aware that
there was a delay in printing and the books are still en route to the
publisher. They will arrive in a few days and get out into trade channels
as quickly as possible after that. There should be plenty at the official
"book launch" a week from tomorrow, assuming the delivery truck does not
encounter a collapsing bridge or other disaster along the way.
Regards,
Ken
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Columnist, Knowledge Quest
Policy Analyst, California Research Bureau, California State Library
Writer, editor, researcher, consultant, www.umbachconsulting.com
916-733-2159 -- voice mail
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