CS at B&N...

[EJ Pennypacker]

So I always look for CS at B&N and I can never find it. I always do find Script Magazine though.

Then for some reason, I actually ventured outside the "Entertainment" section and found myself in front of the little known to me "Literary" section, and low and behold, there were two copies of CS sitting there looking at me.

Is this just my local B&N, or are all CS filed under the lit section? And not entertainment (like Script Mag).

EJ

[adam612]

Not sure which B&N's you go to, but the Princeton and North Brunswick ones keep CS and Script in the literary magazine section.

Although they've only been sporadically there lately.

[Jenny]

I'm somehow on Creative Screenwriting's email list, and I got this email last week. Near the end, it says to look in the Literary section.


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If you’re still interested, and we hope you are, try your local Barnes & Noble now. It is usually in the literary section, near The New Yorker. If it’s not there, look for it among the movie fan mags. At Borders, it should be in the movie-mag section.

If you look and still don’t find it, we’d appreciate hearing from you. Write customer.service@creativescreenwriting.com and say which store(s) you looked in. We’ll follow up with the distributor.

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[Moviequill]

interesting, since I have complained about this 2-3 times on the forums before

[grant]

CS tries to hype it up like it's there because of the superior quality, but the "literary" section is where they dump all the stuff that's only read by aspiring writers. Whether it's the genre stuff like Asimov's and Ellery Queen, or the literary stuff like Paris Review and Tin House. Along with the how-to write stuff like Writer's Digest, and of course screenwriting magazines.

[seminarian]

Sounds like it's not very consistent. At my local B&N in the Upper Midwest, it's in the entertainment section right next to Script.

[Bono]

It's in Entertainment or Literary at BN I go too. But I just look for it. You can't give up. Never give up! And I enjoy BN so I know where all the stuff I like is at anyone I've been too.

But how many places really could it be if they had it? Two.

[roscoegino]

At my nearest B&N, CS is in the literary section while Scr(i)pt is in the film section. Weird, inconvenient but oh well.

[SoCalScribe]

I'm convinced the booksellers at my two local B&Ns like playing Hide and Seek with the CS magazines. Sometimes they're in film (usually stuck behind the fanzines), sometimes they're in literature (usually stuck behind the literary magazines), and sometimes they're in entertainment (usually stuck behind the US Weekly. And half the time, they're not there at all.

Hmm, now that I think about it, there might be a conspiracy brewing. Someone with a grudge against aspiring screenwriters...

[Biohazard]

At my nearest B&N, CS is in the literary section while Scr(i)pt is in the film section. Weird, inconvenient but oh well.

Same here.

[Dean]

I'm convinced the booksellers at my two local B&Ns like playing Hide and Seek with the CS magazines. Sometimes they're in film (usually stuck behind the fanzines), sometimes they're in literature (usually stuck behind the literary magazines), and sometimes they're in entertainment (usually stuck behind the US Weekly. And half the time, they're not there at all.

Hmm, now that I think about it, there might be a conspiracy brewing. Someone with a grudge against aspiring screenwriters...

Judging from your handle, you're on the left coast. It's the same way over here in the East. I always have to hunt for the mag, when they have it. It's usually somewhere in the Entertainment section with Script but rarely ever out in the open. I have to dig and scour for it. The other day I only found Script... and that was in the Writers section

[Bono]

As Bill Maher would say --

NEW RULE -- If you can't find CS at B&N, you are too dumb to be a screenwriter.

[Kelsey]

I work at BN.

CS is supposed to be in the Literary section, while Script goes in the Entertainment section. I don't know why it it, but it is standards, and is supposed to be that way, regardless of which BN you visit. There is supposed to be one person in charge of magazines, but if the magazine is sometimes found in the wrong section, it is probably because another bookseller thought they knew best, and just shoved it there without bothering to double check. It happens a lot.

[Dean]

Kelsey, I haven't even been able to find CS at B&N for the past few months.

Script, on the other hand, is in the Writers section while the previous issue is in the Entertainment section.

I keep hunting for CS on the chance that it's buried behind some issue of Heroes magazine or some SciFi mag. You never know where it will turn up. I suspiciously think that some disgruntled writer working at the store likes to hide the magazine as a way of evening the odds for him/her! :)

[hollywoodcity]

All the above-mentioned inconsistencies seems like a good reason to subscribe ;)

[Dean]

All the above-mentioned inconsistencies seems like a good reason to subscribe ;)

You don't know their track record with subscriptions.