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A Tragedy in the BYU Bookstore
Nathaniel Cassani:
--- Quote from: Link von Kelsier Harvey XXIV on April 21, 2010, 05:44:41 AM ---So there's this shelf in the BYU bookstore where they keep all of Brandon Sanderson's books. Nice big happy display. Hardbacks, paperbacks, signed and numbered copies of Warbreaker, The Gathering Storm, Alcatraz, it's all there. I walk by here from time to time, just so that if anyone happens to glance at them going by I can heartily recommend them. Now the tragedy. I went by today, and while the pile is still there, the shelf has now been invaded by a pile of Stephanie Meyer's books. Brandon Sanderson and Stephanie Meyer, on the same display shelf. Maybe I'm making too big a deal about this, but this is eating my soul. :'(
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Welcome to the business of economics, tragic but true, Stephanie Meyers out sold Brandon's books so I'm not surprised that happened.
Still, we can moan and bewail the tragedy, or maybe launch a protest and have a book burning –only kidding ;D
Me, I'm probably a traitor to this cause though because I've read both authors and enjoyed them, though Brandon's is a little more to my liking than teenage vampire romances –I skipped many a pages of Twilight when the lovey-dovey stuff became too much.
Valkynphyre:
/cry
that is all.
Silk:
--- Quote from: Renoard on April 21, 2010, 10:13:23 AM ---hrmmmm college bookstore selling an instructors novels. . . .seems almost like nepotism. :)
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I think it's only nepotism if they put professors' books on a class's required reading list. :)
...Which has actually happened at my university. But it gave me an excuse to purchase and read Anne's novel, so I didn't mind. :P
Miyabi:
--- Quote from: Silk on July 08, 2010, 04:03:59 AM ---
--- Quote from: Renoard on April 21, 2010, 10:13:23 AM ---hrmmmm college bookstore selling an instructors novels. . . .seems almost like nepotism. :)
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I think it's only nepotism if they put professors' books on a class's required reading list. :)
...Which has actually happened at my university. But it gave me an excuse to purchase and read Anne's novel, so I didn't mind. :P
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This happens a lot in my classes. Generally it involves a reference book for a programming language though, so it makes sense.
Silk:
One of our English professors put a novel by one of our creative writing profs on her required reading list for a Canadian literature class. I don't think professors are allowed to use their own books for their own classes, though.
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