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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Good for them.
Now let's see them hand-deliver a million copies.
Or even a thousand.
If Hachette really relied on Indies it would be great but any Indie bookstore offering 20% discount is paddling upstream in white water; B&N routinely offers 30% and Walmart 40%. The headline is nice and uplifting but it changes the situation not one bit. All it does is highlight the BPHs' well known favoritism towards bulk peddlers. (Now, if Hachette enabled Indies to price match Walmart, that would be news.)
Anyway, relying on B&M retailers, like the olden days, just means that they are going to lose lots of sales in rural areas and the smaller communities without bookstores.
Lots of announcements lately but little meat, so far.
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I just placed my order on their site. The 20% discount did not appear in the cart--I'm hoping that this was just a mistake, and it will be fixed before my card is charged. There was a place to put comments on the order form, and this is what I put:
Shari
Edited to add: Whoops--they already charged my card. Bad form for them to charge the card for a product that not only hasn't shipped yet, but won't be shipping for 2 weeks!