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From: "Christopher Richards" <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] The Society Bookshop and comparison with Amazon
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:16:11 -0000
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I wish it were that easy to turn a loss of £7400 into a profit of the same
amount. (£7400) means a loss of that amount, not a profit...
Christopher Richards


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From: "Caroline Gurney" <>
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Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [SoG] The Society Bookshop and comparison with Amazon


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> Staff don't have to be employed only in the bookshop for their costs to
> exceed the profit. If the cost of whatever proportion of their time is
spent
> on those duties exceeds the profit, then the bookshop will run at a loss.
> Kevin Laurence has pointed out that the bookshop made only £7,454 in 2001
> before any staff costs or other administrative overheads directly related
to
> the bookshop were taken into account. >
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Caroline Gurney
> Portsmouth
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