Comments on: Interview With Allen Gladfelter (Strongman)

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 09 May 2009 20:33:34 +0000

I was able to buy Strongman online from Midtown Comics.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:14:19 +0000

Thank you again. It’s not a personal problem for me anymore, since I already decided to buy from amazon instead of waiting, but it should help other international readers who want to buy the book.

By: Jennifer de Guzman

Jennifer de Guzman — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:34:59 +0000

Sebastian, I will look into it. All the listing information has been submitted to Books in Print, but I’m not sure how long it takes for them to update their catalogs with bookstores.

And Johanna is right. This is something better addressed to us than to the artist for a book via an interview with him. Luckily, I decided to scroll down and read the comments.

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Wed, 06 May 2009 15:19:09 +0000

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By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:54:58 +0000

Yes, I saw that comment, but since that was over a month ago and not much has changed I thought I’d bring it up again.

The essence of what they said I understood to be “We’re not sure why it’s treated differently from our other books. We’ll just re-send the info to the distributors ourselves, so it should show soon”. I know that that can take a couple of weeks to filter down, but I’d have expected some change after 5 weeks.

Of course I might be wrong. If the distributors and the booksellers all update their catalogs only once a month it could take up to 8 weeks, but these days I’d assume they update at least once a week.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:43:28 +0000

Sebastian, that's a question better directed at publisher SLG, not the artist. In fact, they addressed it the last time you brought the topic up -- did you not see their comment?

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Wed, 06 May 2009 10:05:41 +0000

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By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Wed, 06 May 2009 06:34:30 +0000

Nice interview. Another question could have been if he knows why/that his bookmarket distribution still seems to be messed up. The only big online bookseller that currently has Strongman in stock is amazon.com, as far as I can see. B&N doesn’t have it, Borders doesn’t know it, the international amazons don’t have it, other international booksellers don’t have it or even know the ISBN. I’m currently waiting for my copy, which I finally ordered from amazon.com a week ago. It’ll arrive in a couple of weeks.