Monday, October 19, 2009

books and soccer

Click on the link. So, is this a good thing or no? Yeah for being able to buy some of those bestsellers dirt cheap. Boo for what this will do for the already hurting major bookstore chains not to mention the small bookstores. I'm going to be looking for some commentary from some of the agent blogs I read to see what the general take on this new development is. Always interesting to read their opinions on the state of publishing.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091016/ap_on_re_us/us_wal_mart_book_price_war

It was a mixed bag soccer weekend. Oldest kid's team won their sunrise game by a score of 3-0. She has a scrimmage today, will share keeper duties with another player, against the varsity squad as they prepare for state play. That team must win on Thursday to advance to regionals. I'd love to see her shut them out in her half! Middle kid's team lost all three games in Arkansas but played hard and had fun. One of the other girls' moms said that several parents from the final game's other team commented on how good the girls were. Why, yes, yes they are! The youngest kid and I hung around and did a whole lot of nothing, although I did get him to practice his piano and we went down to the Square for a hot cocoa. And no, the latter did not depend on the former, no bribery was involved. I needed to pop over there and get some cinnamon creamed honey....we are addicted to it.

Happy Monday!

2 comments:

Elizabeth said...

definitely yikes for the big and small book stores,,,,,, Walmart is such a bully, I do love a bargain though,,,,, Thanks for sharing!

Anne's BLOG said...

Wal-Mart has effectively destroyed too many small businesses already. They should stay out of the Book Business completely.
While I like a 'bargain' as well as the next person, I think this is going too far. Also, what will this do to the writers' royalties?