Timewaster's Guide Archive

This is my first post here but I have first hand knowledge of what goes on behind the scenes at barnes and noble.  Im a receiver at one of their stores so I am the first person to see any book that comes through the door.  I can say that Well of Ascension has been at our store and a ton of MM Papreback copies of Mistborn came through recently.  We didnt get many copies of Well of Ascension I will admit but some is better than none I guess.  What a lot of people don't realize is like Brandon said each store has no control over what comes to the store.  The home office orders everything for each individual store and it all differs from one store to another.  Also like Brandon said this is all dependent upon selling history (ever work at Barnes and Noble Brandon? lol).  I feel you guys pain though I can attest to the fact that their are tons of things as far as fantasy goes that we never get that really surprises me.  One example is Scott Lynch's Lies of Locke Lamora.  We have never had one copy of it in hardback.  But I digress.  I hope this helps some.  Travis