Fantasy Magazine and Independent Bookstores

[oldcharliebrown]

I'd like to try something out . . . there has to be at least ten bookstores in the continental forty-eight states that would carry copies of a genre magazine, so I lay it in your laps . . . can you identify five to ten bookstores in your state? Even if five bookstores carry five copies of the magazine that represents almost a thousand copies sold . . . which would sell out the first printing (and then I can go to a second printing!)

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[jlundberg.livejournal.com]

Just in the Triangle area, I know Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, The Regulator Bookshop in Durham, Internationalist Books in Chapel Hill, Malaprop's in Asheville, and City Lights in Sylva. All are Booksense stores, and more info can be found here.

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

Very small locality, apparently, as we have three that do--Barnes & Noble and Books-a-Million in Roanoke, VA, and the Barnes & Noble in Christiansburg, VA. If I can find out for sure about more I'll post them.

[ogre-san.livejournal.com]

I know three that do, all in Jackson, MS: a Barnes & Noble, a Borders, and a BAM. Trouble is, they're all chains and I don't know if the individual stores have the authority to order on their own. Meanwhile, the really good indie bookstores don't carry fantasy & SF titles at all. Which I tend to remember whenever someone is praising the independent bookstores and dissing the chains.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Pandemonium in Cambridge, MA, carries genre magazines.

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

I haven't visited their magazine section since I moved back to Utah, but Sam Wellers books might be a good place to try. Also, King's English.