dhosek@mimir.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) (08/29/90)
In article <1990Aug28.125543.25097@eci386.uucp>, jmm@eci386.uucp (John Macdonald) writes... ->In article <254@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes: ->|I always wanted to get a copy of as many green books as I could find ->|and put them all on the shelf with the Green Book somewhere in the ->|middle of all of them. Like so many other things in life, I never got ->|around to it. ->My wife used to work at a used book store. One of the unusual (and ->profitable) types of regular orders that they would receive came from ->the people who furnish model suites for house construction projects. ->They would order "3 yards of green" or similar shelf space x colour ->combinations. They don't expect anyone to read the books, but they ->want them to fit in with the room's decor! Because of the lack of ->intent to actually *read* the books, this is a gold mine for the ->book store ("Now what has been sitting on the shelves so long that ->we know we can't sell it any other way...?"). When I was in College Station back in June, I was in a bookstore (Half-Price Books, I think) that had a sign advertising "Books by the Yard". I was tempted to steal it (the main thing keeping me from it was the store employer a few feet away). -dh --- Don Hosek TeX, LaTeX, and Metafont support, consulting dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu installation and production work. dhosek@ymir.bitnet Free Estimates. uunet!jarthur!ymir Phone: 714-625-0147 finger dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu for more info