Cub Driver wrote:


I suspect there's an Amazon.com for Australia--I know there's a

No, not yet!

Heck, I'd like to see it in the US at places like Wal-Mart or even
military exchanges, but that hasn't happened yet either.

SIP used to be famously difficult and cheap to deal with; many stores
won't carry SIP books. (It also used to be difficult to get a review
copy from them, but evidently that has changed, to judge by the email
exchange I just had with them.) I think part of the problem is that
they won't give deep discounts to individual stores, so by the time
the store has paid the shipping it really doesn't make any profit at
all from the book.

I've several times suggested to a museum bookstore that they stock
Flying Tigers or Glen Edwards, only to be told that they didn't do
bidniz with SIP. And those are avaiation-related shops!


all the best -- Dan Ford
email: www.danford.net/letters.htm#9

I hate to be viewed as "biting the hand that feeds me", but they don't
feed me very much (or often.) SIP has been remarkably disappointing in
their marketing. Thanks to your great job doing the review for WSJ,
and the buzz which it generated, the book has done well, but SIP
doesn't acknowledge that it happened through R.A.M.
conversations--they attribute it to Matt Litts in their shop, who
simply mailed you the review galleys.

They bring new meaning to the concept of a "non-profit" corporation.



Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (ret)
***"When Thunder Rolled:
*** An F-105 Pilot Over N. Vietnam"
*** from Smithsonian Books
ISBN: 1588341038