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Face-Out
Borders is shelving more books with the face out, leading to about 5 to 10 percent less books shelved total. Probably this will help sales, but I don’t particularly like this, as I’m guessing that this will lead to even more covers designed to "grab" a browser’s attention.
For me, book browsing has always been about taking the time to really search through the shelves of fiction. It’s a pleasant way to spend an afternoon, thumbing through book after book, reading pages here and there. Simply, that’s what’s magical about browsing for books. Anything designed to make the process faster and more about what’s on top than what’s inside would be anathema to that.
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So Much for the Granta
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The Box Man by Kobo Abe (1973, English 1974)
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Or perhaps it will increase the publishers’ awareness of beautiful / ugly (or inappropriate) covers? Well, one would hope at least.
Of course, who is going to lose shelf space? Poetry, philosophy, and lit crit. Because we need as much Star Trek fan fiction as possible on the shelves. Ah I’m just grousing now.
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