http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/strange-trend Just another bbPress community en-US Thu, 23 May 2013 09:02:42 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/strange-trend#post-291171 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:16:06 +0000 WannaBeLinguist 291171@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>First of all, hi, everyone! How&#39;s it going? After browsing around the boards for a little bit, I finally convinced myself to join in on the fun. I love message boards, there are just so many interesting and fun people who post on them. &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> <p>Anyway, back on track. After watching &quot;A Game of Shadows&quot;, I had become a fan of Mr. Fry. When I found out he was an author, I decided to check out some of his work. </p> <p>I went to Barnes and Noble and found &quot;The Liar&quot; on the shelf and bought it. There was only one copy. And is was the only book by Mr. Fry to be found in fiction. I figured that, because that particular shop was in a mall, that&#39;s why they only had that one copy of that one book.</p> <p>Then, as I went to other Barnes and Noble shops, I noticed the same thing: They only had &quot;The Liar&quot; on the shelves and they only kept one copy of it on display. Sure, at the same time, they had multiple copies of The Fry Chronicles on the biography shelves but I was trying to explore Mr. Fry&#39;s fictional work.</p> <p>Have any other American&#39;s run into the same trend? I&#39;m not sure if it&#39;s just in my particular area or if several bookshops are the same way but I find it curious that a bookshop would only stock one copy of a book by a certain author on the shelves especially if said author has written other works.</p> <p>Any thoughts? Sorry if it&#39;s a silly question. </p>