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From: wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
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In article <vl9mo7$3fsk$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

>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.

I wrote a blog post more than a decade ago about how the book-club
business model no longer made any sense, and I am quite surprised that
it took the private-equity investors so long to come to the same
conclusion.

-GAWollman

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