National Poker Fixation On The Way Out?

[Leavenfish]

My buyer at a certain major bookstore chain, has begun to give us substantially decreased orders for some poker magazines. He noted, "It is official, poker is the new Low Carb". By that he meant that the low carb craze in society came crashing down quickly early this years...and magazine sales seem to indicate it is heading in that direction.

MIND YOU, he is only talking about magazines...but it could perhaps be argued that magazines are a bell-weather of an item/comodity/national fixation.

Perhaps he is right, perhaps not--I have not had time to run the numbers. I tend to think the proliferation of titles on the market is more what we see at work than any general trend...but who knows, poker could well be on it's way 'out'.

---Leavenfish