Re: [AGA-mcm] Advertising in TFH and selling a book

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

--- Karen Randall <krandall@rdrcpa.biz> wrote:
> One thing we have to be very careful about in the book
> store area is that we 
> don't end up competing with the regular hobby sources. 
> In the past, we have 
> only carried books in the book store that were hard to
> find elsewhere. 

In which case, we provide a service that fills a need.
Otherwise, we're just another book business.

> 
> So I guess we'd need to have three different
> conversations.  First, whether 
> we wanted to change the focus of the book store.

They are a big up front cost and the inventory moves slowly
and there are gigantic steep discounters in the market. Is
that the kind of market I want to break into.
WE might serve folks well enough if we list some books that
might be of interest.

> Second,
> whether Diana was 
> willing, and if not, whether we had someone else who
> would take it on LONG 
> TERM and RELIABLY, the way Diana has, 

Love to see DW keep doing it if she's willing. If not,
hmmm, that guy from the convention (Cohen? Cone?) ????

> and third, even if
> we we decided "yes" 
> to both of those, whether we want to become bedfellows
> with TFH as our first 
> step in expanding book store offerings.

Do we have to get *into* bed or can we just enjoy dinner
and then only tiptoe around the bed? 

sh

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