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Oxfam is making few friends with its bookshop chain...

Pharmacy Alprazolam, This has been on my mind a bit recently, but I haven't had time to say anything about it. This morning, there's a piece in The Bookseller, and as I wander around the internet poking things and muttering, Mississippi MS Miss. , I find that Susan Hill has written in The Spectator, as well.

So... what to say.

Well, order Alprazolam overnight delivery, first thing: Oxfam is not good just because it's Oxfam.

Oxfam is good because it does good stuff. It has a positive effect on the world, so we applaud it, pharmacy Alprazolam. If it's also having a negative effect, that's something to consider. Alprazolam en ligne afin, Any number of big entities, of course, have a crappy effect on the world a long way away from the UK. Mentioning no names. If Oxfam is messing with the UK's local economies in order to feed the 3rd world, Delaware DE Del. , that wouldn't make it unique, just weirdly upside down. Pharmacy Alprazolam, That does not make it okay, it just makes it bleakly amusing.

So, Missouri MO Mo. , first thought: being Oxfam does not make you irreproachable.

In fact, being a powerful charity means you have to be, if anything, more careful about where you step when you work in a commercial arena in your own back yard, where to buy cheap Alprazolam, especially in a recession. Why. Because you get tax breaks and low business rates and donations (more than 80% of income from Oxfam's shops is from donations). Oxfam, like other charities, is awarded significant advantages under the law so that it can do good, pharmacy Alprazolam. Alprazolam pedido en línea, The tacit presumption, it seems to me, is that it will not deploy those advantages in a fully-fledged, corporate-style commercial enterprise in which it competes directly with local shops. I think those advantages are supposed to make it possible for a charity to function on a shoestring and send as much money as possible to the battlefront, Texas TX Tex. . I don't think that when they were created anyone envisaged a charity which would iterate as an aggressive chain. That transformation is genius in fundraising terms, but it also potentially indicates a shift in identity from something which is about transforming donation into cash to something which seeks to maximise profit from donation. Pharmacy Alprazolam, I think it's incumbent upon Oxfam to consider very carefully whether what they're doing here is really a good thing. Comprare Alprazolam sconto, There is sometimes a narrowness of focus in the charitable sector. It's a necessity - or at least a huge pluse - when you're trying to argue for your cause above a lot of others looking for the same funding. It's a vital component of reminding people that beyond their own problems there's a world which needs their support. It's also a potential disadvantage in some situations, where the notion of the good which one's own organisation can do is allowed to eclipse the other goods in the world, Indiana IN Ind. , and even the possibility that one may do damage along the way.

Second thought: when a charity operates in a corporate style, what does that mean, pharmacy Alprazolam.

Is there a middle ground?

I can't see how any bookshop can readily compete with an entity which enters the arena with such significant advantages. I'm a big fan of indies and I think there are some opportunities which will become available to them over the next few years which are really interesting. Alprazolam online kaufen, However, those opportunities will equally be available to Oxfam and the chains. So, would Oxfam be prepared to work with the indies. Pharmacy Alprazolam, Would they wholesale to local second hand shops. After all, Kaufen Alprazolam, they'd still make money on the transactions, because their operating costs are low and they're getting a lot of books free. They just wouldn't make as much. Ordering Alprazolam no rx, And that's where this becomes a razor issue to me. If Oxfam really is operating in the way which Susan Hill describes - if they're moving in and driving out the indies - that is unconscionable. It's one thing to open a charity bookshop in a thriving area, pharmacy Alprazolam. It's another to identify a town as a target because you can undercut a local bookseller and walk away with the catchment area. The former is perfectly good practice, the latter is corporate brigandage in the interest of the financial bottom line, purchase Alprazolam, and a charity doing it is not better than a corporation, but worse. Corporations, Alprazolam without prescription, after all, are profit-making machines. Charities get their status because they are good-making machines. Pharmacy Alprazolam, Third thought: it is not clear to me - yet - exactly how bad the situation is. However, if the Oxfam Books chain is endangering local shops, kjøpe Alprazolam, that is not something they can in good conscience ignore. It is not enough to say, as David Mccullough did the other day, Cheap Alprazolam, that supermarkets are more of a problem for booksellers than Oxfam is. That may well be true, but it's like saying that rain isn't something to worry about when the river's flooded.  Rain may make the difference between life and death.

So here's a hypothetical question for Oxfam: if the cost of raising the maximum amount of money for your work abroad is the demise of the small bookseller in the rural UK - and possibly more widely - is that a price you're prepared to pay, pharmacy Alprazolam.

It's a genuine question, comprar en línea Alprazolam, not a rhetorical one. I know people, I suspect, Köpa billiga Alprazolam, who would say "yes" without hesitation. If Oxfam's plan allows for this possibility and has factored it in and approved it, that's something we should be told, because it has bearing on whether we want to shop at Oxfam Books. After all, ostaa halvalla Alprazolam, there's nothing to say we can't give them money in other ways.

@SamAtRedmag Pharmacy Alprazolam, asked me this morning whether I thought people should withhold donations of books from Oxfam. The answer is that I don't know. I'm a fan of charity work and I believe that - despite tales of 4WD excesses and banquets in famine zones - Oxfam is a massive force for good. Købe Alprazolam online, That said, I'm incredibly uncomfortable with this operation. It seems a mismatch of cultures - when Oxfam shops were little scruffy places on the corner with wonky candlesticks for a fiver, then of course they needed all the breaks they could get. When (if) those breaks have been deployed as part of a nationwide strategy to create a smooth selling machine whose side-effect is to jeopardise one of the few remaining hubs of local life and throw more fuel on the fire which is consuming small booksellers, then I have no intention of supporting that process, pharmacy Alprazolam.

There are a hundred other charities which do great work around the world, köpa Alprazolam. I can sell my old books by weight to a local indie who will then make enough to stay afloat on them, and send the money to Water Missions International or MSF - some of the alternatives spend a far lower percentage of income on administration, so the bookseller's cut will not affect the amount aid I've given. Cheap Alprazolam pills, In the end, as with any use of money, the thing you have to remember is that in our world, buying is voting.

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Oh, one last thing: when @oxfamgb picked me up on my numbers, I took the opportunity to ask about this issue. So far: answer came there none.]

[Updated edit: Very exciting. I'm apparently about to be emailed by Oxfam's trading director on this topic. One thing I can say without hesitation: Oxfam is a hell of a lot easier to talk to than Google... And isn't that completely bizarre?].

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It does appear, however, that Borders has crashed again, only a few months after being rescued, and the flesh-and-blood booktrade is apparently losing money hand over fist to the online shops.

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Diversity and insanity

I can get the latest Dan Brown at the train station bookshop. Buy Alprazolam pills, It will inevitably be ludicrously discounted. (Hm. Buy Alprazolam pills, And there's a thing. Waterstone's is in a price war with Amazon, Montana MT Mont. . Waterstone's and other real world shops and the online sellers are jointly squeezing publishers for greater discounts. Order Alprazolam online cheap, Here's a notion: if publishers take a stand on discounting and Waterstone's and friends go along with it, Amazon &co. can be pushed away from crazy reductions and the booktrade can breathe for a few months, Wyoming WY Wyo. . Aaaaaaanyway.) These days I'll probably buy it on iPhone, anyway, buy Alprazolam pills. I don't need a paper copy of The Lost Symbol. Acquistare a buon mercato Alprazolam, I don't mean that a small bookshop shouldn't sell bestsellers. I mean that what's great about them is that you can trip over My Cousin, order Alprazolam no rx, My Gastroenterologist or Night of the Avenging Blowfish, Cheap Alprazolam overnight delivery, or a forgotten gem like Fawn Brodie's staggering The Devil Drives. You can get these books on the internet - but you won't hear about them unless someone tells you they're there. Buy Alprazolam pills, Which brings up...

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Yes, South Carolina SC S.C. . The bookseller is the sommelier of the written word. Cheap Alprazolam no prescription, "With your new sofa and a glass of Talisker, Frabjous & Lobe's Books Of Quality is pleased to recommend Don't Point That Thing At Me, sir, order Alprazolam overnight delivery. The verbiage is fruity, Cheap Alprazolam, the plot pithy, and the characters possess verve, sir, Jotta Alprazolam verkossa. And to follow, we recommend a crackling log fire and David Grossman's most excellent Writing In The Dark, buy Alprazolam pills. It broadens the mind, Cheap Alprazolam tablets, sir."

Dexterity

One of the bizarre experiences of buying a book from big chains is ordering. I'm staggered when I have this dialogue:

"I'd like a copy of Sharp Teeth, please."

"Oh, ordering Alprazolam online cheap, yes. Buy Alprazolam, Great book. Uh, we've sold out. Buy Alprazolam pills, Would you like to order it?"

"Yes, that would be great."

"Okay, it'll be here in a week."

"Wait, we're what now?"

Disadvantages of scale. Problems with parking. I have no idea. But Primrose Hill Books, my old local shop, could get most titles in 24 hours - making them at least as fast as Amazon.

Print On Demand?

This requires a bit of shift, but I really think it's interesting. I love the idea of being able to go into a bookshop and have them print a properly formatted book for me, in one of a variety of sizes ("pocket or portfolio, sir?") and put on, perhaps, one of a number of independently-produced jacket designs of my choosing, buy Alprazolam pills. A local artist's work, perhaps. Or, of course, a lightweight temporary version at lower cost, which I can write in and drop in the bath. And what if they could do that with my eBook. What if I could buy the eBook and then decide I wanted a paper version after all.

Yes, all right, this is bookscience fiction. But it needn't be for long.

Stopping there for the moment, because I have work to do. What do you think about all this.

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