Just After Sunset discontinued?

[Black Suit]

I know I should have picked this up earlier but I quickly went to Target to purchase the book and they told me it was discontinued.

I've also gone to Wal-Mart where I've seen the book before and now, there are no copies..

What's going on??

I know the book isn't that old so why are most stores not carrying it?

[the_last_gunslinger]

I was in a Wal-Mart the other day and they had several copies. And Amazon still has it available.

[Ubasti]

I saw it recently, well a week ago, in a Barnes & Noble.

[bopropadop]

"Out of stock' maybe, but discontinued? I wouldn't think so, either. I'm pretty sure I saw a copy at my Target about a week or two ago. Try a local bookstore perhaps?

Good luck! It's frustrating not finding something that came out so recently.

[devilboy666]

i think most dept store chains like wal mart target k mart only keep them on the shelves for a limited amount of time maybe 6 months to a year and then the distributor buys the reamining copies that didnt sell at a cost and the stores just write it off if that makes since im sure bookstore chains like borders and barnes and noble still have it

[Black Suit]

yeaaa man I wanted to punch that dorky kid in the face when he said it was discontinued. I knew he was wrong but the fact that there were no copies anywhere enraged me!!

yea I guess I'll have to go to Barnes

[Ben E Gas]

Maybe he just meant that Target discontinued selling them, not that the publisher discontinued selling them.

[jackson992]

Any word on when this comes out in paperback?

[Watahoot]

If you have a Hastings near you, see if they have it. I bought mine "used" for half-price at one.

Plus more often than not, Hastings will have a few first-edition King hardbacks very cheap.

[Jake Featherston]

Not to be a wet blanket, but don't buy books from Target, anyway. Seriously. Wal-Mart already exerts pressure on what people can record in their music, because otherwise Wal-Mart won't sell it, and the studios can't deal with that. The last thing we want to do is give that kind of power over to publishers of mainstream books. And while he often doesn't feel that way when you're reading him, Stephen King is pretty much the epitome of a mainstream author, these days.

Weird little books that only odd people (like me) buy will always be safe (provided anyone bothers to publish them at all), because Target, Wal-Mart, etc., will never care about them, but Stephen King books could, theoretically, be vulnerable to pressure from corporate retail weenies (perhaps responding to Christian Fundamentalist boycott threats, or whatnot).

[Moderator]

Such as, for example, having to change the title from Unnatural Acts of Intercourse to Just After Sunset.

[the_last_gunslinger]

I much prefer the title, Just After Sunset, especially with the book's unique, almost shimmering cover. "Unnatural Acts of Human Intercourse" is a bit wordy; it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

[Leighjavu]

This is interesting, but no surprize. I've read articles regarding Wal-Mart and their pressure on the vendors who signed on the dotted line to sell thru them.
I read that both Huffy bikes and Vlasic pickles went bankrupt to meet the demands of pared down products in bulk for Wally world,forcing them to sub-contract to fill orders for other retailers that they make their normal products for.
Wal-Mart has a debt to China in the billions. The last straw for me was learning that they put silent life insurance policies on their elderly employees. I'm not missing anything. Actually, I'm living better!

[Jake Featherston]

This is interesting, but no surprize. I've read articles regarding Wal-Mart and their pressure on the vendors who signed on the dotted line to sell thru them.
I read that both Huffy bikes and Vlasic pickles went bankrupt to meet the demands of pared down products in bulk for Wally world,forcing them to sub-contract to fill orders for other retailers that they make their normal products for.
Wal-Mart has a debt to China in the billions. The last straw for me was learning that they put silent life insurance policies on their elderly employees. I'm not missing anything. Actually, I'm living better!

Some people fantasize about going back in time in order to kill Hitler or Stalin. Me, I fantasize about going back in time in order to kill Sam Walton.*


*He's already dead, by the way, so no one need misconstrue this as some sort of misguided "threat."

[AnnekoMartian]

I bought it in my local Target just today, so it isn't discontinued, or even not-sold-in-Target-stores, but maybe Target operates on a store-by-store (or at least region-by-region) basis in regards to what they will or won't carry book-wise...

[Jay P Lang]

Nah, I just got this book a few days ago at barnes'n'nobles