Comments on: Looking To The Future http://booksquare.com/looking-to-the-future/ Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:02:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Karen Scott http://booksquare.com/looking-to-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-114287 Karen Scott Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:21:42 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/11/29/1675/#comment-114287 Florida actually, somehow I expected more from from a bookshop assistant working in the Sunshine State. I have to agree with you about the covers though, I don't understand why the EC art department insist on making them so horrid. I'm hoping that changes soon. By the way, Erotica is the new Hawaiian Blue if you please. And you're right, I don't read EC books for the covers. I read them for the emotional depth and spirituality that can be found between the pages. Seriously. Florida actually, somehow I expected more from from a bookshop assistant working in the Sunshine State.

I have to agree with you about the covers though, I don’t understand why the EC art department insist on making them so horrid. I’m hoping that changes soon.

By the way, Erotica is the new Hawaiian Blue if you please.

And you’re right, I don’t read EC books for the covers.

I read them for the emotional depth and spirituality that can be found between the pages. Seriously.

]]> By: Booksquare http://booksquare.com/looking-to-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-114268 Booksquare Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:49:51 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/11/29/1675/#comment-114268 First, a confession, I carry Satanic Verses around in my car. I've never quite made it to the end (but real close), and keep thinking it will be the carwash book. If only I didn't carry so many other options in my purse. Still, the husband worries about it and keeps hiding it under the driver's seat. This despite knowing my relationship with braking. I was, quite frankly, surprised at the number of EC titles available. Not so much because of the content, but because of the awful production. Yes, I say nobody's reading them for the covers, but even my open mind has a certain level of expectation for professional cover stuff. I will admit that the EC titles I've read haven't met my literary expectations, but I'm seeing improvement in the writing level from early days. Erotica is, to be all cliche, the new black. Or maybe aqua. I cannot keep up on today's trends. As my dear Jill taught me, it's hot in middle America. Don't tell me you were trying to buy EC titles in, gasp, CA? First, a confession, I carry Satanic Verses around in my car. I’ve never quite made it to the end (but real close), and keep thinking it will be the carwash book. If only I didn’t carry so many other options in my purse. Still, the husband worries about it and keeps hiding it under the driver’s seat. This despite knowing my relationship with braking.

I was, quite frankly, surprised at the number of EC titles available. Not so much because of the content, but because of the awful production. Yes, I say nobody’s reading them for the covers, but even my open mind has a certain level of expectation for professional cover stuff. I will admit that the EC titles I’ve read haven’t met my literary expectations, but I’m seeing improvement in the writing level from early days.

Erotica is, to be all cliche, the new black. Or maybe aqua. I cannot keep up on today’s trends. As my dear Jill taught me, it’s hot in middle America. Don’t tell me you were trying to buy EC titles in, gasp, CA?

]]> By: Karen Scott http://booksquare.com/looking-to-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-114258 Karen Scott Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:45:33 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/11/29/1675/#comment-114258 On a slightly different note, I was in America recently, and I too noticed the amount of EC books in Borders, however, the author I was looking for wasn't there, so we went to a Barnes and Noble where I went to up to one of the assistants there, who looked really friendly, and asked if they stocked Elloras Cave books. I think I shocked the hell out of her, because she looked about as comfortable as a virgin in a whorehouse, and wasn't as helpful as she had seemed previously. Perhaps I should have asked for Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses... The moral of the story? These book stores may stock EC books, but they sure aren't comfortable talking about them. On a slightly different note, I was in America recently, and I too noticed the amount of EC books in Borders, however, the author I was looking for wasn’t there, so we went to a Barnes and Noble where I went to up to one of the assistants there, who looked really friendly, and asked if they stocked Elloras Cave books.

I think I shocked the hell out of her, because she looked about as comfortable as a virgin in a whorehouse, and wasn’t as helpful as she had seemed previously. Perhaps I should have asked for Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses…

The moral of the story? These book stores may stock EC books, but they sure aren’t comfortable talking about them.

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