In retail, product placement is often key to whether or not something is sold; this should interest authors and publishers. I agree that this is a mismatch. I would suggest forwarding this message to the handful of current publishers of Zope Books: New Riders, Beehive, No Starch Press, Sams, CodeIt (I can't remember who their publisher is), etc. Sean -----Original Message----- From: Robert Geiger [mailto:rgeiger@bellsouth.net] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 7:14 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Barnes & Nobles Putting Zope Books in the wrong place!!!!!! I don't know who knows anybody at B&N, but maybe the authors of the ZOPE related books can all call the booksellers and get them to put the Zope books in the correct section! Currently, B&N keeps the ZOPE books in the Networking systems section, a hodge podge of books that have absolutely nothing to do with Web App development. I brought this to the attention of the section manager, and, although he agreed with me, he told me there are other people higher up the food chain that decide these things, and that he could not move them. The computer inventory system would have to tell him where to put the books. There is a Web Development section, and a Languages section. Either one would be more apropos for Zope books. The Python section has grown considerably, and if placed in the language section, would be within a shelf of the well-browsed python language books. The Web development section is fairly huge, and mostly related to various ASP, PHP, and other tools, and, given it's size, would be harder to stand out in, although it would be a more apropriate section. On the plus side, being at the END of a section (Z) is a good thing. So, after having to browse EVERY section at B&N, and finding Zope in the 'wrong' one, I'd like it to be easier for EVERYONE to find these books. Enough said, just wanting to let somebody know. I tried, now it's the communities turn! -- Robert Geiger _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )