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From: Tim Powys-Lybbe <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] The Society Bookshop and comparison with Amazon
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:53:20 GMT
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In message <>
Liz <> wrote:

> 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.

The problem with the bookshop for me was that it never had what I
wanted. I have found that Heraldry Today has consistently been a far
better resource for my interests.

And on the one occasion when I did try to buy a CDROM from the bookshop,
I had to send in three reminders over three months and eventually
cancelled and bought at S & N.

<snip>

--
Tim Powys-Lybbe
For a patchwork of bygones: http://powys.org


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