Yes. They're hurting the people who submitted them and get no feedback of any sort telling them how to improve their efforts or that they should find a better use of their time.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 1:12 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Why books languish
Hi Scott. As I said, I often look at the older books on the checkout list, and I have seen some commonalities. Poetry and cookbooks often languish, because they take considerable extra effort. Nonfiction often languishes, especially on esoteric topics. People don't think the topic sounds interesting, and hunt out something else. I have occasionally taken a nonfiction book that I wasn't very excited about, and found it very interesting, once I started. Also, I suspect that many people start with the most recent books on the checkout list, since they come up first, and never progress to page 2, much less 3 or 4. Some books just get overlooked. I haven't found many languishers with serious quality issues, though. I hope you don't just dump old books willy-nilly. Are they actually hurting anybody, sitting there? Tracy To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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