(April 20, 2019 at 12:03 am)Fireball Wrote: 3.5 shelves of Tolkein? What are they, 3" wide!? [ducks] And Jordan's jaw literally fell when he found out he had 1.5 shelves.
I used to work in a bookstore. "Books-a-Million" which I affectionately called "Sucks-a-Million." Lol! I hated that job when they didn't have me being the barista.
Anyway, Fireball, how it works is this: if an author is popular, his/her books are put on the shelf "front faced." Since you are going to sell tons of Tolkien, you are going to have three copies of Fellowship of the Ring facing forward, then around 10 copies spine facing out, then 3 more front faced copies and 10 more spine facing out. Then, Two Towers and Return in the same fashion.
By contrast, the lesser known authors are wedged in as tight as they will go. All their shit is with the spine facing out.
Popular authors are "displayed" and everyone else is "wedged in there." And when the space gets too tight, the lessers-knowns are the first to have their books pulled, even if there are 20 copies of Tolkien displayed front faced, taking up the whole goddamn shelf. That's the biz though. You stock the stuff that sells.
