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...booksellers, but his main effect on the others has been to convince them that the key to survival is more attractive stores, better service and larger selections. A New York University survey showed that eight out of ten regular book buyers would rather pay list price in a regular bookshop than go to a discounter for the sake of the markdown. Many buyers go into a store with only a vague idea of what they want, need attentive salesmen (all too rare) to guide them to their choice. "Give me five minutes' conversation with a man about books," says...
Since pornography is now available at every neighborhood bookshop and drugstore, the idea of satirizing the pornographic novel was bound to occur to someone. If done with Swiftian skill, it could be defended on moral as well as literary grounds, even though it could easily descend to the level of a vice crusader's wet-lipped discourse on the evils of vice...
...Pickwick Bookshop Hollywood...
...Author Victor Lasky, 46. That did not mean that bookstores were forbidden to sell copies on hand, and the book never faltered from its top position on the bestseller lists. So, with local supplies dwindling, Macmillan decided to start shipping again, though the promotion ban continues. Said a Boston bookshop manager: "I can't stand olives, but if I were running a grocery store, I would carry them. Some people like olives...
Another target was the flood of pornographic literature that has been un controlled in Japan, protected by "free dom of the press." In the town of Kofu at the base of Mount Fuji, bookshop owners voluntarily banned 37 sex magazines from their counters. Their movement spread across the nation; in the southern city of Moji, book dealers and youth leaders burned 1,500 copies of "undesirable" magazines. By last week Japan's 7,000-member Federation of Book Retailers had joined in the black list, and at least four of the publications were out of business...