Re: Sales of THE COMPLETE HYPERCARD HANDBOOK

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From: [email protected] (Stephen Kurtzman)
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Subject: Re: Sales of THE COMPLETE HYPERCARD HANDBOOK
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Date: 15 Dec 87 03:48:29 GMT
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[email protected] (Chuq Von Rospach; Lord of the OtherRealms) writes:

>(Bantam has said, by the way, that 100,000 copies of that thing have
>been sold -- SOMEONE is using HyperCard!)

[email protected] (Jeff Meyer) writes:

>To give you an idea of how well it sells, I saw it at Costco, one of those
>warehouse stores, the other day. Costco sells very few books -- only the
>ones which can be expected to sell like crazy. Apparently Goodman's book
>is.

I wonder about the Bantam figure. When the book started to hit the market
it was hard to find a copy. Now, it is everywhere. Two B. Dalton software
stores near me always seem to have at least 20 or so copies on display. I
would guess that the Bantam figure includes the copies that are sitting in
bookstore inventories.