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.
“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
In article <vl9mo7$3fsk$[email protected]>,
Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> 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.
"After 2/1/2025, orders will no longer be processed at Science Fiction
Book Club."
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.
On 1/3/25 5:36 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
In article <vl9mo7$3fsk$[email protected]>,
Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> 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
“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.
On 1/3/2025 2:01 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
“SFBC shutting down”Add me to the list of those who thought SFBC was long since defunct. I
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.
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.
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