[austechwriter] Re: Bookseller discussion for tech writing books
- From: Stuart Burnfield <sburnf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 10:13:17 +0800
Bill H said:
> I suggest that you CC your little exercise to Dymocks marketing
> department, with some indication of the number of subscribers to
> the austechwriter list - perhaps with a suggestion that they might
> like to consider what they could do to address a potentially
> patriotic market of writers that still face supply and demand
> problems where shekels and the availability of the books are
> concerned.
I went through this in a small way with Boffins a few years ago.
They are (or were) a good bookstore, but their business model
doesn't work any more. Obviously they won't have any specialist
knowledge of TW books. All they offer is a tiny stock of the most
popular recent releases on their shelves, and the ability to order
books from the US.
Now anyone can research, price and order books from anywhere.
Assuming that the book you want isn't in stock here (a safe
assumption), your options are:
- fill in the web form or send an e-mail yourself
- tell your local tech bookstore the title, author, ISBN and
publisher and have them fill in the web form or e-mail, pay them
$50 extra, and wait longer for the book to arrive.
As Bill says, we'd probably all prefer to support the local
business, but they need to be providing some value and the markup
needs to be a lot smaller. In my experience the choice has come
down to this: buy three TW books from Amazon, or buy two TW books
locally and give the bookstore the money that would have paid for
the third book.
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Stuart Burnfield
Information Developer
Australian Programming Centre
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