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From: Liz <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] The Society Bookshop and comparison with Amazon
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 06:36:46 +0000
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Pickard - Hunimex wrote:
>
> It is hard to imagine that the Society could ignore the 4% of key members
> that subscribe to this list - it would have been nice to have been told in
> advance of impending doom or even ask for suggestions.

That was my thinking. For instance, those of us who are much involved in
Mailing Lists and newsgroups could have made a point of recommending the
online bookshop, particularly to those overseas .... a thing I used to
do myself in the past, but had rather let slip, forgetting that there
are new family historians coming into the hobby all the time.

And those of us who visit the Society could have made a point of doing
our buying there .... One usually builds up a small booklist over a
period of a few weeks or months ... making the Society bookshop our
'preferred retailer' would not have been too hard.

I just wish that we, the members, had been made privy to the problems
ahead of time and invited to be part of the process of achieving
'targets'. Who knows, we might have made a difference.

Instead we just get the old 'Don't complain if you don't volunteer'
routine. Personally I would have been happy to make sure that the money
I am able to budget for genealogy books, fiche, CDs went to the Society
rather than elsewhere. The membership fee, which was harder for me to
find this year, is the limit of my contribution to the Society I am
afraid ..... perhaps if I was able to volunteer my time on top of that I
would hear about such decisions in time to offer suggestions.

As it is I feel that we who do not/cannot work for the Society for
nothing as well as making our hefty financial contribution are brushed
aside and left unconsulted ..... perhaps to the Society's detriment.

Liz Mazonowicz

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