Exclusive Distributor of SSI? Not really.

["James" <james@xxxx>]

I think you're misunderstanding the term here, Louie. DMC (Texas) 
entered into an agreement with the original publisher that they would 
have the book reprinted with the new addition and sell them to us to 
distribute. Two of the three vendors have already ordered books to 
resell, but beyond that, major retailers (Barnes & Noble, Amazon, B. 
Dalton, etc) all want a HUGE (up to 70% or more) discount off of 
retail to carry them, and then anything they don't sell after a 
period of time, they will want us to buy back. We'll sell them to 
anyone for any purpose (personal reading, donating to a 
library/school, resell on Ebay - whatever) but only at a price that 
we determine - not a price that Amazon or Barnes & Noble wants to pay.

And on the subject of school/library donations - I'm working on 
something to make it worthwhile to consider buying an extra copy to 
donate. My step-mother is a librarian in the 3rd largest city in 
Arizona, and she tells me library budgets are pretty low on the 
priority list - probably even more so for school libraries.

James

Louie wrote:
>What I *DO* have a problem with is DMC-Houston trying to be the sole
>distributor of the book. It should be available to everyone,
>everywhere. Let's face it... only people who know a lot about the
> DeLorean car will know to get the book through DMC-H.