Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!oberon!pollux.usc.edu!kurtzman From: kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu (Stephen Kurtzman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: Sales of THE COMPLETE HYPERCARD HANDBOOK Message-ID: <5721@oberon.USC.EDU> Date: 15 Dec 87 03:48:29 GMT References: <36317@sun.uucp> <2484@fluke.COM> Sender: nobody@oberon.USC.EDU Reply-To: kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu (Stephen Kurtzman) Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 18 chuq@sun.uucp (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!) moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (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.