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Posted by cwatbay on November 29, 2002 at 11:52:40:
In Reply to: What Ever Happend To Good Ol' James W. Hatfield III ??? posted by IGUANA JOE on November 28, 2002 at 23:10:17:
Maybe it's the economy. Perhaps publishers are having just as hard a time making any money as anyone else. With a limited audience for reptile books, as compared to the general populace, perhaps these publishers are holding back on anything that doesn't have a "million dollar" seller label attached to it.
If I recall, there are a lot of reptile books on discount sale at Amazon. Maybe even Amazon is telling publishers that reptile books just ain't selling that well.
Could also be that the authors have to front a lot of their own money up front in order to get published - not unusual by the way. This means that the publishers don't have to absorb all the costs of printing and circulation in case the book doesn't sell that well.
Anyway, who knows. Maybe you can email these guys and see what they are up to.
CW
:Unless I've been living under a heat rock for too long (...stupid MBA exams!...) I noticed he is somewhat MIA.
:I wonder if he's working on another book, perhaps on other iguana species sold in the pet-trade, or keeping a low profile. Or maybe he writes on other boards.
:(If he's actually in this forum under some other name I'm gonna kick myself and jump from the tallest building in Joisey... which is probably a tree anyways :)
:Even the very cool Dr. Sprackland hasn't done much since his latest book on African monitors.
:I also wonder what the Barlett's are up to...
:In the 90's there was such a boom in reptile literature; now it seems that there is enough info to know everything while we still have so much to learn.
:I hope I'm not going to make an @$$ of myself asking that. :-))
:-IJ
