Re: new 'books' section on the M-P website

Sean, Powell's Book Store in Portland is a wonderful place. If you speak
to them about our needs they may accommodate us.
Elly Bade

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Sean A. O'Hara wrote:

> At 01:09 PM 8/11/99 +0100, you wrote:
> >Sean, thank-you for the effort on the biblio front. Barnes&Noble are I
> >believe only a runner in the US. However, Amazon have a purchase facility in
> >the UK [www.amazon.uk] and hence makes for sense for the European and
> >Commonwealth members. Can you get the same deal commission also with Amazon
> >as obviously purchasing books out of the US is impractical for everyone
> >except N. Americans.
> >Edward
> 
> Edward (& All) - 
> 
> Can you tell me more of what you mean in 'purchase facility'?  Barnes&Noble
> do ship worldwide, and it looks like those outside of North America are not
> unduly penalized.  For information about their shipping, check:
> http://www.barnesandnoble.com/help/help.asp
> 
> If you can find some sort of flaw in their setup, please let me know.  I
> thought about Amazon.com for a while, but I found all sorts of people with
> 'stories' about them and less than satisfactory service.  My most favorite
> site was Powell's Book in Seattle, but they weren't big enough and did not
> have all of the books we were already listing.  While I am not enamoured
> with a huge bookstore chain like Barnes&Noble (I live in an area which
> is know for hundreds of small bookstores!), I found that they did do a lot
> of business with outfits like Powell's for rare and out-of-print books.
> They also seemed the most willing to listen to patrons and makes changes.
> Non-profits seem to be important to them also, and they even provide a
> number of free banners for important non-profits (cancer research, etc.)
> who have linked up with them.  I liked their 'Internet style'.
> 
> The concept of becoming an affiliate with Barnes & Noble was not really to
> support the Medit-Plants web site.  I doubt seriously that we'll get
> enough 'kick-back' revenue from books orders on our site.  But many people
> are interested in ordering books online and linking up with a resource for
> this seemed to make a lot of sense.  I am very open to other avenues as well.
> If anyone out there knows of an appropriate horticultural business to get
> connected with, then please let me know.
> 
> Sean O.
> see the 'inprint' section of:
> http://www.support.net/Medit-Plants/
> 
>
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