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From: "Jeanette Iredale" <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] The Society Bookshop and comparison with Amazon
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 12:08:25 +1000
References: <006b01c2df29$755a4aa0$0200a8c0@caroline>


I am no expert at retail sales but couldn't the bookshop have been let out to
someone who would have been prepared to put the time and energy into making the
bookshop a profitable enterprise. I should imagine that there would be
somewhere in London a specialist bookstore who would have been prepared to take
over the business in exchange for rental. The bookshop mailing list alone must
be worth money to an enterprising businessman/woman.

Jeanette
Brisbane Qld Australia
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Researching:-
Northumberland - BOURKE, BROCKBANK, BRUCE, BUTCHER,
DODD/S, EDGAR, GOLDWATER, HOLMES, HORSLEY, IREDALE, LOOKUP, SWINHOE,
TULIP, USHER, VENUS, WILLIS, YOUNG
Co. Durham: EDGAR, IREDALE
Cumbria - BROCKBANK
London - BARTLEY, BERESFORFD, BROWN, CROUCH, GRAVES, PROCTOR
Australia - IREDALE, PAVEY, McCARRON



----- Original Message -----
From: Caroline Gurney <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: [SoG] The Society Bookshop and comparison with Amazon


> Rob Thompson wrote:
>
> <very big snip>
>
> > If direct staff costs (IE Staff employed ONLY in
> > the bookshop) are greater than the profit on the books
>
> 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. That is, only half one person's time
> would have needed to be spent there before the bookshop was in the red.
>
> As Geoffrey wrote earlier: "In our case most orders are for an odd book and
> the paperwork and staff effort behind the scenes is too costly to be
> efficient".
>
> Caroline Gurney
> Portsmouth
>
>
> ______________________________


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