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RE: What is Your favorite Bookstore? - 7/23/2010 5:06:11 PM
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9drtr
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It wasn't about the COST of the book. . .it was about the mark up, from a CHRISTIAN company. Not that I'm defending them, but they are a business that has to show a profit, so there is always going to be markup. That doesn't justify charging more than the published price, but your comment makes it sound like you don't expect a Christian business to make a profit. And that's just plain ridiculous.
Any Christian business is entitled to show a profit, provided it can do so legally. But the point of GraceyGirl's post is that a bookstore, whether Christian or not, is legally or contractually obligated not to mark a book up to more than the price marked above the bar code. The retail price marked, in this case $14.99, should be sufficient to cover expenses and allow a profit.
If FCB can't make a profit at $14.99 when every other bookstore can, then they appear to have a serious stewardship problem, and that would also be a good reason not to shop there.
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RE: What is Your favorite Bookstore? - 7/25/2010 8:16:50 AM
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I've paid full price for books but I've never been charged over the suggested retail price. I didn't think that a store would try to get away with that.
I am going to have to change my vote to Borders. B&N is reevaluating which books they are carrying in store. The only computer books they are carrying in store now are the beginner books. 
Plus B&N does not work with the Sony Reader I just bought.
I thought this stuff was going to happen with the focus on ebooks.
Look up the program Calibre. One of the other threads lead me to it, and I have loved it since I got it. It allows me to change the format of alot of books, and put them onto the kindle I have.
It doesn't do every type of ebook format, but it does do SOMETHING that every ebook reader can read.
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RE: What is Your favorite Bookstore? - 7/25/2010 8:24:54 AM
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Miss Giggles
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I downloaded Calibre but I don't know how to use it.
Correct me if I'm wrong but both b&n and borders are selling epub books with encryption..
However the reader can't open b&N books.. because the encryption on the reader doesn't support it. I can however open the books on the laptop and the Ipod touch (Yes I have that too).
So while calibre can change formats.. I don't think it was meant to break amazon's encryption or Adobe's encryption.
BTW I was wrong in my previous statement. Doesn't look like Borders is carrying the reference books either I wanted. So I will have to order the real book (which comes with a cd with the ebook) or just download the electronic version.
So that's the future of book reading.. we will just be sitting in the coffee shop with our kindles/nooks/readers.
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RE: What is Your favorite Bookstore? - 7/29/2010 8:20:05 AM
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uncabeeil
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But the point of GraceyGirl's post is that a bookstore, whether Christian or not, is legally or contractually obligated not to mark a book up to more than the price marked above the bar code. I realize what her point was, I'm not that dense.
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RE: What is Your favorite Bookstore? - 7/29/2010 10:46:12 AM
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9drtr
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But the point of GraceyGirl's post is that a bookstore, whether Christian or not, is legally or contractually obligated not to mark a book up to more than the price marked above the bar code. I realize what her point was, I'm not that dense.
Sorry, but I've had a couple of arguments here recently with people who hadn't previously shown evidence of being that dense, but who had trouble understanding perfectly plain English when the message didn't suit them. I thought this was another.
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RE: What is Your favorite Bookstore? - 8/1/2010 6:51:06 PM
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Amazon and CBD....
I do not care for Barnes and Noble or Borders..their Christian section is extremely small, and, all books are full price...not much incentive to go their...
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RE: What is Your favorite Bookstore? - 8/2/2010 6:11:59 PM
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Miss Giggles
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borders has a lot of coupons. You need to get on there mailing list, but they do have them.
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RE: What is Your favorite Bookstore? - 8/7/2010 11:33:40 PM
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Did all my shopping at Valley Book and Bible in Van Nuys, CA. Along came Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, etc., and patronage dropped off tremendously at Valley B & B. Sadly, they had to close last December, after about 40 years in business.
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RE: What is Your favorite Bookstore? - 8/10/2010 3:29:11 PM
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Definitely Books-A-Million. I also like discount books on www.God4me.com. I've gotten alot of books from there.
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RE: What is Your favorite Bookstore? - 8/10/2010 5:33:45 PM
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Not that I'm defending them, but they are a business that has to show a profit, so there is always going to be markup. That doesn't justify charging more than the published price, but your comment makes it sound like you don't expect a Christian business to make a profit. And that's just plain ridiculous.
I agree with your point about profit. Too many people these days act like profit is a bad thing. Christian companies have just as much right to make a profit as anyone else.
I DO care whether a company, christian or otherwise, is breaking their agreements with the publishers when they sell their products. That is an issue of integrity.
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RE: What is Your favorite Bookstore? - 8/13/2010 12:15:58 AM
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Charity shops...
The amount of times I've been to Waterstones or WHSmiths and bought a £9.99 book only then to go to a charity shop a few mins down the road to find the same book for 70p is one time too many! Not to mention it goes to charity which is a plus of course!
If I'm to name a store though, I find myself in Waterstones more than any other. They always seem to have what I'm after.
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RE: What is Your favorite Bookstore? - 8/14/2010 1:09:44 AM
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The one I'm standing in with money in my pocket.
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RE: What is Your favorite Bookstore? - 8/26/2010 11:22:03 AM
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I don't have a problem in the world with anyone making a profit on their merchandise, and after re-reading my post, I don't think what I said could have been construed that way unless someone were particularly looking for that type of comment.
That said. . .
It is against rules, set down by publishers and distributors, agreeded up in contract with booksellers, to violate sales policies. I except ESPECIALLY that a Christian oriented merchandiser would follow these rules. . .more so than anyone else.
In all that we do, we are to glorify God. That means, if you've contracted and have agreed to do things a certain way, then especially b/c we are men and women of God, we should do them that way. Period.
I buy a LOT of books from another well known Christian bookstore. . .I have no problem supporting their business. They have always conducted themselves with integrity. But being a good steward of what is entrusted to me, means that I do business with other good stewards. And breaking the rules, to make a larger profit (for whatever reason) is NOT an indication of godliness or good stewardships.
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