As widely reported, Larry McMurtry held an enormous auction, The Last Book Sale, at his Booked Up store(s) -- and now he offers a post mortem at the NYRblog.
Disappointingly:
Disappointingly:
Everything sold but the fiction. Everyone who deals in fiction has plenty, and more is spilling onto the market from the sale of the Serendipity Books stock now being dispersed on the West Coast. Many people asked me if I was sad to see so many books go. I wasn't -- mainly I was irritated to discover that I still had 30,000 novels to sell.I'm always amazed that anyone would be interested in anything other than fiction .....