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From: davis@hplabs.UUCP (Jim Davis)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB
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Date: Mon, 25-Feb-85 06:10:16 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 25 06:10:16 1985
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> I've been in the book club twice now.
> Overall my reaction to their selection is an old fashioned "raspberry"!
> They have a few oldies but goodies, alot of current (last two or three years),
> and VERY few new ones. Also, the new ones are never available till after they
> make it to the bookstores. 
> In other words, go for the freebies when you sign-up, but get out ASAP.
> 
> What we need is good old fashioned competition in the sci-fi bookclub market!!

    I find that it is okay though not great to be in the Book Club.
In fact I am often in it twice.  I keep one membership for continuity,
and join a second one everytime I have built up a list of books that
I think are worth having.  The ones that I simply "have to have" I get
with the "continuity membership".  The SF Book Club in the long term
certainly stinks relative to the costs for a new member.  But it sure
seems worth belonging to.  (Right now I'm only in once, I haven't
built up enough that I want to re-rejoin.  (If they ever objected; I
think that that would be the end of my 8 year associations with them.)

    The books are comperable to some bookstore quality.  (In fact,
they are often identical.)  However, the prices have been going up,
though they are still ~< 1/2 of bookstore prices on the identical book.
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	Jim Davis (James W Davis)
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