Unlike some folks I don't have any objections to the existence of a product like Book of Erotic Fantasy. But stocking it on the shelf right below the D&D Basic boxes is not the smoothest of moves. And it's not like this was something that was special ordered and never picked up. There were two copies. That shows some level of forethought exercised by some Borders employee.
Saturday, May 05, 2007
Dear Borders, WTF?
My local Borders bookstore has this infamous tome on the shelf with the other D&D stuff:
Unlike some folks I don't have any objections to the existence of a product like Book of Erotic Fantasy. But stocking it on the shelf right below the D&D Basic boxes is not the smoothest of moves. And it's not like this was something that was special ordered and never picked up. There were two copies. That shows some level of forethought exercised by some Borders employee.
Unlike some folks I don't have any objections to the existence of a product like Book of Erotic Fantasy. But stocking it on the shelf right below the D&D Basic boxes is not the smoothest of moves. And it's not like this was something that was special ordered and never picked up. There were two copies. That shows some level of forethought exercised by some Borders employee.
White Wolf reprinted the book and sent into book distribution along with everything else they sell. I wouldn't be surprised if Borders ordered it like any other WW title and put it on the shelves without a second thought.
ReplyDeleteWere I a cynic, I'd suggest that WW precisely counted on that and wouldn't mind seeing a bit of a controversy over it.
The phrase "there were two copies" had me laughing out loud for reasons that would take far too much typing to explain. Just make it your #1 priority to ask if we ever meet at a con someday; it'll be worth it ;)
ReplyDeleteIt's unfair of you to say that kind of stuff s.john. Now I'll have to demand that if this meeting ever takes place that it be recorded for the satisfaction of other certain interested blog readers.
ReplyDeleteProbably just me.
That's a fair demand ... In fact, I've always meant to commit that particular anecdote to audio, because it really doesn't work in plaintext (it depends heavily on doing the voices just right) :)
ReplyDeleteLord knows I've told it at least a hundred times at cons over the years, and some of those isntances _have_ been recorded, but I don't have the tapes, alas.
And I can normally spell. I seem to have been exposed to whatever color of kryptonite that destroys that ability.
ReplyDeleteIs it at least shrink-wrapped?
ReplyDelete*makes notes to talk to John about his anecdote*
No, they weren't shrink-wrapped. And they were shelved right smack in the middle of the WotC books, directly below the Basic Sets.
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