SF and fantasy romance does get into specialty sf bookstores -- at least, into the two in Minneapolis.
We sell some of it as well, but we didn't pick up the paranormals in the '80s because there were a lot of them, and we had square footage problems wrt space.
By the way, Harlequin has published science fiction before. In the 1970's, they had Laser Books.
I remember those! And had forgotten them; I wasn't working in bookstores at the time, so they didn't leave the same impression as, say, the Worldwide SF library did before it disappeared.
I know that with the latter, they treated the books as if they were category books in terms of how they were sold. Actually, I think they may have done other men's action series that I also never saw in a bookstore.
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Date: 2004-11-07 09:24 pm (UTC)We sell some of it as well, but we didn't pick up the paranormals in the '80s because there were a lot of them, and we had square footage problems wrt space.
By the way, Harlequin has published science fiction before. In the 1970's, they had Laser Books.
I remember those! And had forgotten them; I wasn't working in bookstores at the time, so they didn't leave the same impression as, say, the Worldwide SF library did before it disappeared.
I know that with the latter, they treated the books as if they were category books in terms of how they were sold. Actually, I think they may have done other men's action series that I also never saw in a bookstore.