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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 22:56:54 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <vlbto1$ikm6$1@dont-email.me>,
Dimensional Traveler  <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>On 1/3/2025 2:01 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> “SFBC shutting down”
>>     https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1hsnqmd/sfbc_shutting_down/
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>Add me to the list of those who thought SFBC was long since defunct.  I 
>KNOW it ceased operations at least once many years ago as I got the 
>notice telling me it was going out of business.  I didn't cancel my 
>membership, they just stopped operating.  Someone must have bought the 
>rights and such and started a successor company.

It was still going when I parted ways with it in the summer 
of 2014. 

The _Canadian_ SFBC had gone under by then and I think there was
a UK one as well.

I though they should create a North American version of Gollancz's
SF Gateway but I don't think anyone higher up thought that was a 
good idea.

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