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Craig Popelars at Algonquin shared this with me:
Hello, Team Heidi,
I just want you to know that we ordered a box of 36 of Heidi's books and over the past two weeks, we have sold 31 of them. I don't even think we saw more than 40 customers in those two weeks! This is a very slow time for us, and for a February release to sell this well is just amazing. We don't want anyone to walk out of the store without it, and we are selling it to some of our older teen customers as well. One of our Junior High School students came in yesterday and pleaded, "Just give me another book like The Girl Who Fell From the Sky! Anything like it! Please, it was so amazing! Argh! Brick!" It is the bestselling fiction book in our store for the past two weeks, and Shelley is featuring it as her Spring Book on our homepage right now. If there is anything we can do to talk Algonquin into sending Heidi here this summer, please let me know. (Perhaps our firstborn, or a new pet for Heidi? We have great chocolate right down the street, or fudge?) I want to make it very clear that we're willing to bribe.
Thank you,
Jessilynn Norcross
McLean and Eakin Booksellers
(Editor's note: I hear the author said she'd take the chocolate.) |
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And this from Carol Besse
I just had a happy experience I want to share with GLiBA members.
I tried LIBRIS insurance a couple of years ago and couldn't get what I considered a simple apples-to-apples quote and abandoned the process in frustration. I also have an allegiance to my local agent who I have been with for 30+ years. When I got back from Winter Institute 5, I got a call from someone at LIBRIS who said they now have a program - an outgrowth of Indiebound - that allows booksellers to contract with LIBRIS and still retain their local insurance agent. So I said OK I'd let them quote me, but I asked them to contact my local agent and talk with him so they could speak their "insurance language" and compare their quote to what we have now. I got a call yesterday from my agent who said LIBRIS could save us $2,000 a year (that's TWO THOUSAND!) and that it was a good policy backed by a good company (Traveler's) and he didn't see any reason why we shouldn't switch. So I am switching.
Obviously everyone might not have the same experience, but I thought it was worth sharing mine and letting people know it might be worth a try/quote.
Carol Besse
Carmichael's Bookstores
Louisville, Kentucky
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