Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 18:53:24 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: re: The eyes, they bleed!  The brain, it hurts!
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Tamar Lindsay wrote:
>  Michael Walsh <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
> <snip>
>> Face it ... it's just bad art.
>> That said, Baen books sell ... they know their market.  & this will
>> probably sell fairly well.
>
> Or, if people pick it up and look inside, it may sell in spite of
> the cover. There's a reason the dollar stores sell those flimsy
> cloth covers for paperback books.  I bought certain authors for
<snip>
Heh. Reminds me of the textbook covers from when I was in high school, back
when the world was very young: Lion Taming Made Easy, by Claude Balls; Mountain
Climbing Made Easy, by Hugo First....

mark
--
Let us say negotiation is not his forte. Ballmer is no more designed
for the art of persuasion than the Abrams tank is for delivering meals on
wheels. - "Late Scores: Germany 1, M$ 0", John Naughton, The Observer (UK)