many American bookshops are just as dismal these days
I submit that you have not seen the horror that is Easons' SFF shelving. Separated out into SF (Star Wars, Star Trek, and, um, maybe a handful of [old] original authors) and fantasy (Jordan, Goodkind, Eddings, and maybe a handful of others). SF and fantasy, separated. Even books by the same authors. And Easons is pretty much Ireland's Big Bookshop.
Hodges Figgis has the best selection in Dublin, and the sanest attitude to shelving. Unfortunately they just told me flat that they can't/won't order Elizabeth Bear's Worldwired in for me (Bantam Spectra, which I thought was a pretty big publishing house), because it doesn't show up in their computer system. But I've seen other Bantam Spectra titles on their shelves!
Yikes. I'm ranting again, amn't I? And here I thought I wasn't going to do that anymore.
::sigh::
Incidentally, if you haven't read Bear's Hammered and Scardown I really can't recommend them highly enough.
Amazon is really handy. The only problem is the shipping time and the price of said shipping :-). Still mostly works out cheaper, but... I dunno. I think I'd rather deal with real people. If I had that option.
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I submit that you have not seen the horror that is Easons' SFF shelving. Separated out into SF (Star Wars, Star Trek, and, um, maybe a handful of [old] original authors) and fantasy (Jordan, Goodkind, Eddings, and maybe a handful of others). SF and fantasy, separated. Even books by the same authors. And Easons is pretty much Ireland's Big Bookshop.
Hodges Figgis has the best selection in Dublin, and the sanest attitude to shelving. Unfortunately they just told me flat that they can't/won't order Elizabeth Bear's Worldwired in for me (Bantam Spectra, which I thought was a pretty big publishing house), because it doesn't show up in their computer system. But I've seen other Bantam Spectra titles on their shelves!
Yikes. I'm ranting again, amn't I? And here I thought I wasn't going to do that anymore.
::sigh::
Incidentally, if you haven't read Bear's Hammered and Scardown I really can't recommend them highly enough.
Amazon is really handy. The only problem is the shipping time and the price of said shipping :-). Still mostly works out cheaper, but... I dunno. I think I'd rather deal with real people. If I had that option.