November 7 - UVic bookstore
Hurt Penguins again:
- Ted Bishop, Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books ($7.99 - such a sweet guy. Ted teaches at the University of Alberta, where I barely knew him, and this book was written after a horrific motorcycle crash that almost killed him)
- Avi Friedman, Room for Thought: Rethinking Home and Community Design ($3.99)
- William Bryant Logan, Oak: The Frame of Civilization ($2.99)
Comments
I'm not saying Bookwise.com is a scam or a pyramid scheme, but I've seen better business models, and I'm damned sure I've seen more respect for books.
No business that recruits members with spam is a legitimate business, by which I mean a business I have any interest in being associated with.
The Founders are Richard Paul Evans and Robert G. Allen which have sold over 30 million books. With the likes of Mark Victor Hansen, Marc Brown, Daphne Rose Kingma,Henery Winkler
Please Know from where you speak
By the way we use Baker and Taylor for our Book stores
Dr Robin Rushlo
But maybe not. The capital letters interest me: am I supposed to call Messrs. Evans and Allen "The Founders," or was that a mistake? The capital on Know was a mistake, so maybe so.
And your named writers are very successful writers: not "some of the world best writers" [sic - "world's"], but very successful. I'm curious about your list of the "100 greatest books ever written," as your site promises to give to anyone who pays the $39.95 down. If even one of your named authors is on that list, you're no friend to literature. To investors, perhaps, and maybe even to writers in the modes to which your examples belong, but not to literature.
That's the other reason I objected to your post as spam, the callous disregard for the possibility of aesthetic experience. I delight in reading, not money. You're looking to recruit people able to exploit me: you don't want me.
And you'll never recruit a hardcore reader to follow The Founders if you post badly written comments to do it.
I can not read Books as I am 100% blind and everything I do is either Braille or Audio and I perfer audio.
Please take a longer look at all of the items at www.bookwisepro.net/blindguy55 and SEE the big picture. We will also carry College Text Books cheaper than most on campus Bookstores
or stake a long look Please.
Dr robin Rushlo
What was there about my blog that told you I might be interested in multilevel marketing? Or in selling books rather than reading them?
And I'll admit that your organization sounds better than your first spam-sounding comment made it sound. (Which was a long, long way from appealing.)
But what about my blog made you think I want to sell books rather than read them?
As for the Bibles 70% of the inmates can not read pass the 1st grade level and
we had a children's Bible at below the 1st grade level brought in.
No organized backing just my group
Bibles in Prisons LLC
That is all
That was also the only book that all the prisons will let in across the Board
So that is why we did it that way to also teach them to read.
Other books were hard to get into the prisons.