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Originally Posted by GA Russell
I'm very surprised to hear that!
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I currently work for B&N and can confirm that they do, indeed, let employees keep stripped paperbacks as well as advance copies of books.
Aside from the fact that retail sucks beyond belief and the usual round of stupidity from corporate that one finds anywhere, B&N is a pretty good place to work and at least where I'm from has a good community presence.
EDIT: Barnes and Noble would kill me for saying this, but I hate seeing Borders go under. I've never been to one, and feel no special attachment to it, but I hate the gradual erosion of choices in the marketplace that we're currently experiencing. Nowadays you pretty much have to rely on one or two companies in a region to get what you need, and with Borders suffering BN is pretty much the only national book retailer left of any significance.
Competition is always a good thing, and we seem to be reverting back to 1900-era monopolies.