Lead Not Bookdealers into Temptation

Well, I can’t blame the bookseller for his business acumen. Certainly he had no particular business incentive to be nice, if they were going to sell off every old book they had and never buy any more until he was dead and gone; and if he was going to be able to retire wealthy off the profits.

But geez, this is sharp practice. And geez, the people who run Truro Cathedral must never had heard of selling books piecemeal. Even on E-Bay.

Umberto Eco wrote a novel about this, but I guess the Truro folks aren’t big on Eco.

About these ads

1 Comment

Filed under Uncategorized

One Response to Lead Not Bookdealers into Temptation

  1. I believe that this sort of thing used to be known in the book trade as ‘book stealing’ at one time.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s