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Originally Posted by gabby98
I receied this from Encore Book Club by email this morning for those that may be interested . . . .
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Thanks for letting us know about this, gabby.
Call me "suspicious," but I felt that I needed to know more about "Buck Books." Let me share what I've found; it will only be some odd bits and pieces of information.
First, I did a search and couldn't find anything about the company--good, bad, or indifferent. Unfortunately Google kept wanting to give me webpages about "Pearl Buck" (even though I had "Buck Books" in quotation marks).Argghh! There was plenty about a "$2 Buck Book" company--apparently, not the same company.
EnCore Book Club seems to be a good outfit, so their recommendation(?) of Buck Books (henceforth, "B.B.") is significant.
B.B. seems to have periodic sales in which the books are only $1. There were some thumbnails of book covers from their most recent sale. Interestingly, clicking on the book covers sent me to Amazon each time. Apparently, Amazon does their order fulfillment and when B.B. wants to have a sale they send word to Amazon to drop the prices on the books to $1 each.
All of the books that I checked were either published by "Amazon Digital Services" (i.e., self-published) or by some companies that I've never heard of. One common name was an "Archangel Ink." Interestingly, the link that EnCore Book Club sent to its members had the Archangel Ink domain name.
I went to Archangel's homepage and soon learned that Archangel Ink is a
self-publishing company. Maybe the other companies that I have never heard of are aliases of Archangel, I don't know. A book being self-published is not necessarily a negative to me, as sometimes there are some good books that are self-published. However, in my experience, there are far more that are not very good quality.
B.B. asks for your email address, in order to send announcements of their $1 sales. Right now, I'm going to hold off giving my email address to them until I know a little more about how ethically they conduct business (I have just had to start the tedious process of migrating my email to another provider partly because I've had a recent explosion in the amount of spam (to around an average of 100 pieces a day now!) that I get to the address. So, I'm hyper-cautious right now).
I hope that some of the above information is helpful.