Jeff Tedford wrote about Naxos in the US:

>Klaus Heymann says that Naxos is virtually invisible in the US outside
>of the large chains.  Well get a clue Klaus-start dealing direct with the
>public or hire someone to market over the Net to the independent stores.
>...  As it stands now I'm forced to go to Borders to find the one copy of
>a new Naxos release and woe to me if I don't immediately snap up the Piston
>Violin Concertos or Foote Chamber Music or even Bruckner 8- see you...maybe
>next Spring when the misshapen Rocknroll toad behind the counter gets
>replacement by accident...

Tell me about it.  I tried to special order the Naxos Piston recording
and they sent me a card saying that it was not available from their
distributor.  Shortly after that, I found 2 copies on their rack.  I picked
up a copy then.  How Borders stocks Naxos seems to be quite bizzare.  They
will call the Shostakovich String Quartets to be too bizare for them to
have in stock, but then they do have some REALLY bizare stuff instead.
Then there is their display system.  The other day Naxos CD's were spread
out in 3 places: 2 "Alphabetical" racks and then the random spinner.  At
least they have now merged the two alphabetical sections together, but it
is quite hard to see quickly if they have something.

The problem is that if I mail order, shiping brings the price
significantly higher than Borders.

Ken McGuire
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