rent-a-book?

[Stan4dSteph]

The bookstore at the Albany airport has an interesting promotion. If you buy a book there, read it on your trip, and return it when you come back, they'll give you back 50% of the cost. Anyone else see that at airport bookstores?

[Alex]

I've not noticed in airports but have seen similar programs. The Cracker Barrel chain of restaurants do this, I believe (I know they do it for audio books). Several of the major truck stop chains also have such programs for audio books and DVDs (don't know about books though).

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Alex

The Cracker Barrel chain of restaurants do this, I believe...

At first, I was thinking that you had to return your dinner when you get back, and that seemed, well... odd.

[Alex]

Sorry. For those who don't know, each Cracker Barrel restaurant has an attached "country store" that sells the usual road trip knickknackery. If you've been to Pea Soup Anderson's on a drive to Disneyland it is similar (though bigger) to what they have.

[3894]

Originally Posted by Stan4dSteph

The bookstore at the Albany airport has an interesting promotion. If you buy a book there, read it on your trip, and return it when you come back, they'll give you back 50% of the cost. Anyone else see that at airport bookstores?

How fair is that to the author whose royalty is based on the purchase price not the list?

[Ponine]

Originally Posted by 3894

How fair is that to the author whose royalty is based on the purchase price not the list?

It's not, but I am willing to bet that its using the same "theory" as gift certificates.
Poeple have to take that EXTRA step to get that money back, and I wonder i f the percentage of people that actually redeem, or return the book is less than 20%.
Meaning, they make more than the give away.

But then again, if I like an author, or KNOW an author, I'll buy the book at full price regardless because I see it as an incentive for them to keep writing.

Now... if said author never tells you who they heck they are, and you have to read every book in Barnes and Noble.... well, I might go broke that way.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Ponine

Now... if said author never tells you who they heck they are...

We know who she is. She is 3894. Also known as Helen Johnson. You can find about the book she wrote with her husband here.

[Ponine]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

We know who she is. She is 3894. Also known as Helen Johnson. You can find about the book she wrote with her husband here.

Okay, point for 3894, we do know who she is.
However, I also know that she has a more... prolific side, with another name.
That book I already own, it's in the ready to read pile.

[Alex]

I read it. It is interesting and surprisingly will stay in my permanent keep collection (not because I am surprised they wrote an interesting book but because I only permanently keep books within a couple very narrow topical ranges and I was surprised to find that this book was in one of them).

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by DreadPirateRoberts

I wonder if they considered rechargable AAs. We use them all the time and have had good luck with them.

GD and I made the jump to rechargables ourselves and I'm never going back. For a library that has constant check outs and returns though, dealing with rechargables would mean either investing in tons of rechargers or swapping them out of a few rechargers constantly, and both ways you've got huge time commitments involved.