Deadtree copies

[Bill Swears]

I have dead tree copies of Zook Country! Galleys, ARCs, and early
release sale copies, oh my!

I guess salable copies need bar codes. Who knew?

Bill
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[Nicky]

On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 6:16:14 AM UTC, Bill Swears wrote:
> I have dead tree copies of Zook Country! Galleys, ARCs, and early
>
> release sale copies, oh my!
>
>
>
> I guess salable copies need bar codes. Who knew?
>

Congratulations!
>
Nicky

[Jacey Bedford]

In message <01b5683f-ccc1-4662...@googlegroups.com>,
Nicky <nicky.m...@btinternet.com> writes

>On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 6:16:14 AM UTC, Bill Swears wrote:
>> I have dead tree copies of Zook Country! Galleys, ARCs, and early
>>
>> release sale copies, oh my!
>>
>>
>>
>> I guess salable copies need bar codes. Who knew?
>>
>Congratulations!
>>
>Nicky

Whoo-hoo!

Jacey

--
Jacey Bedford

[J.Pascal]

Yay! How does it feel to hold something tangible in your hands? It was real in electrons, of course, but I'm betting it's still weirdly different.

-Julie

[Bill Swears]

On 11/1/2012 7:21 PM, J.Pascal wrote:
> On Thursday, November 1, 2012 6:41:50 PM UTC-6, Jacey Bedford wrote:
>> In message <01b5683f-ccc1-4662...@googlegroups.com>,
>>
>> Nicky <nicky.m...@btinternet.com> writes
>>
>>> On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 6:16:14 AM UTC, Bill Swears wrote:
>>
>>>> I have dead tree copies of Zook Country! Galleys, ARCs, and early
>>>> release sale copies, oh my!
>>
>>>> I guess salable copies need bar codes. Who knew?
>>
>>> Congratulations!
>>

>> Whoo-hoo!
>>
>> Jacey
>>
>
> Yay! How does it feel to hold something tangible in your hands? It was real in electrons, of course, but I'm betting it's still weirdly different.

I makes me nervous. I'm having great difficulty getting anybody in
Alaskan publishing to pay the slightest bit of attention to me. As a
result I fear that the nineteen books that have been ordered so far are
the only ones that will sell.

Bill

[Dorothy J Heydt]

In article <430cca1d-7e70-4589...@googlegroups.com>,

J.Pascal <ju...@pascal.org> wrote:
>
>Yay! How does it feel to hold something tangible in your hands? It was
>real in electrons, of course, but I'm betting it's still weirdly
>different.

Well, back when I had something tangible to hold in my hands,
Greg Bear told me that I was allowed to carry one and wave it at
people for only a limited time, I think three months. I never
waved it around *at all.*

--
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
Should you wish to email me, you'd better use the gmail edress.
Kithrup's all spammy and hotmail's been hacked.

[Bill Swears]

On 11/2/2012 6:49 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article <430cca1d-7e70-4589...@googlegroups.com>,
> J.Pascal <ju...@pascal.org> wrote:
>>
>> Yay! How does it feel to hold something tangible in your hands? It was
>> real in electrons, of course, but I'm betting it's still weirdly
>> different.
>
> Well, back when I had something tangible to hold in my hands,
> Greg Bear told me that I was allowed to carry one and wave it at
> people for only a limited time, I think three months. I never
> waved it around *at all.*
>

I take one to places where I can wave it, and then don't. I'm going to
take one to work today.

Bill

[David Dyer-Bennet]

Bill Swears <wsw...@gci.net> writes:

> I have dead tree copies of Zook Country! Galleys, ARCs, and early
> release sale copies, oh my!
>
> I guess salable copies need bar codes. Who knew?

Even independent bookstores use scanners for inventory control these
days.

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[Dorothy J Heydt]

In article <ylfk8v9o...@dd-b.net>,

David Dyer-Bennet <dd...@dd-b.net> wrote:
>Bill Swears <wsw...@gci.net> writes:
>
>> I have dead tree copies of Zook Country! Galleys, ARCs, and early
>> release sale copies, oh my!
>>
>> I guess salable copies need bar codes. Who knew?
>
>Even independent bookstores use scanners for inventory control these
>days.

Yes, but ... used books over a certain age don't *have* bar
codes.

What do the bookstores do? Make their own?

[John W Kennedy]

On 2012-11-26 15:40:18 +0000, Dorothy J Heydt said:

> In article <ylfk8v9o...@dd-b.net>,
> David Dyer-Bennet <dd...@dd-b.net> wrote:
>> Bill Swears <wsw...@gci.net> writes:
>>
>>> I have dead tree copies of Zook Country! Galleys, ARCs, and early
>>> release sale copies, oh my!
>>>
>>> I guess salable copies need bar codes. Who knew?
>>
>> Even independent bookstores use scanners for inventory control these
>> days.
>
> Yes, but ... used books over a certain age don't *have* bar
> codes.
>
> What do the bookstores do? Make their own?

If they're recent enough to have an ISBN, you can make labels; there's
cheap software nowadays. And you can go a few years further back on
American books by including the LOC number. Even further if you want to
take the effort to look the book up on loc.gov.

--
John W Kennedy
"The bright critics assembled in this volume will doubtless show, in
their sophisticated and ingenious new ways, that, just as /Pooh/ is
suffused with humanism, our humanism itself, at this late date, has
become full of /Pooh./"
-- Frederick Crews. "Postmodern Pooh", Preface

[John W Kennedy]

David Dyer-Bennet <dd...@dd-b.net> wrote:
> Bill Swears <wsw...@gci.net> writes:
>
>> I have dead tree copies of Zook Country! Galleys, ARCs, and early
>> release sale copies, oh my!
>>
>> I guess salable copies need bar codes. Who knew?
>
> Even independent bookstores use scanners for inventory control these
> days.

So do consumers who catalog their books with software such as Readerware.

[Bill Swears]

I knew that ISBNs were a requirement, but my ARCs and my Galleys came
without bar-codes, and my publisher was very clear that only the ones
with bar-codes were salable.