Presenting the "Worst Tie In Book" ever....

[tezukasama]

I'm sure everyone on this community is looking forward to the release of 'The DaVinci Code' in paperback on 3/28. We got our shipment of trades & MM's in yesterday along with what I consider to be one of the hokiest tie in, ride the wave of CodeFever and milk it while you can books ever.....'The Code Diet

Comments

[libwitch]

You know, I am a librarian, so it makes my idea of what to do with massive quanities of stock particularly sacreligious.

Burn them.

Because after a while, you just simply don't have anything else to do with them.

[thisdaydreamer]

I've been lobbying for a wood chipper.

[egodram]

Wow, small world:

I know the author of that book, Stephen Lanzalotta, he runs a bakery in the town where I live. He originally started writing that book to be an anti-atkins thing, and the publishers bought it (for a large amount of money he couldnt refuse) and decided to repackage the whole thing, ignoring his objections.

oh well, companies will be companies

[thisdaydreamer]

They ruined an anti-Atkins book? For shame!

[literaticat]

I haven't seen them yet, but I saw the ad in PW for Da Vinci Diet . Hilarious! I spent several minutes trying to imagine what Da Vinci might have eaten. Hard bread and grappa? Chunks of cheese and chianti? Poached fish and glasses of olive oil?

Thing is about those backlist titles, the old MMs are going OP. Wholesalers will have them for a time, but when they run out, they're out. So, hello hideously oversized and overpriced!

[fourwaytriangle]

Haven't received that gem just yet, no. But there's still time...

I didn't know there was an oversized, overpriced edition of Deception Point - we've got the hardcover illustrated editions of Angels & Demons and The DaVinci Code but that's all so far. I just hope they don't bring out a DaVinci Code Movie Tie-In edition, with glossy photographs of Tom Hanks *shudder*

And on a related topic, does anybody else find David Hewson's covers ridiculously similar to Dan Brown's?

[cindel]

This means more work for us in the Cafe; people using it like its a damn library...