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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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In article <vlbrvk$ibja$2@dont-email.me>,
Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 1/3/25 5:36 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>> In article <vl9mo7$3fsk$1@dont-email.me>,
>> Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> “SFBC shutting down”
>>>     https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1hsnqmd/sfbc_shutting_down/
>>>
>>> “Reported in Ansible 450.”
>>>     https://news.ansible.uk/a450.html#14
>>>
>>> "The "How it works" page now says this:"
>>>     https://www.sfbc.com/how-it-works
>>>
>>> "How Your Membership Works<br>Cancel anytime."
>>>
>>> "After 2/1/2025, orders will no longer be processed at Science Fiction
>>> Book Club."
>>>
>>> "You can still redeem your existing credits on the site as normal until
>>> 2/1/2025."
>>>
>>> "You can also still purchase books using a credit card on the site as
>>> normal until 2/1/2025."
>>>
>>> I am surprised SFBC lasted this long.  I have not ordered a book from it
>>> since the early 1970s.  I think that “Dune” was the last book I bought
>>>from it.
>>>
>>> Lynn
>>>
>> 
>> I can still tell you what my membership number was for many years, until
>> they sold I guess.  (I won't, but I can).  In the post-Amazon years,
>> I would pretty much buy only the omnibi or art/comic offerings, but
>> still many fond memories.
>
>Same here. When I first started reading this group in the mid-1990s, i 
>quickly learned that I'd had a non-standard intro to written SF, and 
>that I had missed a lot of the common classics most others had read.
>
>SFBC was my primary way of "catching up", including their awesome 
>introductory deal at the time. I also greatly appreciated Andrew 
>Wheeler's contributions and insights here in rasfw over the many years 
>he was here.
>
>I haven't been a member for years, but I'm sad to see it go,
>Tony
>

Interestingly, I never dropped out -- they just eventually stopped sending
me packets.  I guess I wasn't profitable enough at the end.  Somewhere
I have a stack of their booklets from the 70s onward when they still did
their own art.

I wonder if Columbia House is still around -- they chased me for years trying
to get me to renew.
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