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[megwrites]

Buy Books For the Holidays.

I know a lot of folks, mostly via LJ or online places but a couple in real life, who are published authors who have books that would make great christmas gifts. I think books as gifts have been underrated for a long time. I know that people want to go for the gusto, and want to give big impressive gadgets and electronic devices and other such things, but a book really can be the gift that keeps on giving.

Especially if those you're giving the gift to have a long flight to look forward to when they return home. Nothing makes a crowded airport and a miserable flight more bearable than a good book to distract you from the Obligatory Unstoppable Crying Baby that's two seats behind you (there's one on every flight).

If you're into a certain author, what better way to convert your friends than giving that author's books as gifts?

Sometimes the best way to say something is to say it with a copy of the "Dummies For..." version of whatever you're trying to say.

I do plan on buy books (new, even) this holiday season, if only for myself. I'm definitely asking for giftcards to bookstores so that I can go and purchase said books.

A question for anyone who knows: if you buy a book with a giftcard, does that register any different or is just the same as if you'd bought the book with cash/credit card? Just wondering. I wouldn't think so, because the book would still have been marked as sold.

I think to support the cause, since I can't buy all the books I'd like to buy, I'll get around to posting those book reviews that I've been meaning to post for the last few months but have kept putting off. Because if I can't buy 'em, I can at least encourage other people to.

So, expect some book reviews in this space sometime soon.

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[wisdomeagle]

A question for anyone who knows: if you buy a book with a giftcard, does that register any different or is just the same as if you'd bought the book with cash/credit card? Just wondering. I wouldn't think so, because the book would still have been marked as sold.

Well, the auto-restock would work the same way, I imagine, and triggers the same response that eventually leads to the franchise ordering more of the book, so my guess is the author gets royalties just the same.

I can't remember now how gift card purchases showed up on our daily tallies at the Store -- obviously, the Store Universal prefers that we sell giftcards that are never redeemed, because that's money in the bank for a piece of plastic, but I *think* the sale of gift cards themselves was reckoned differently, and then purchases with gift cards did count towards our daily totals when they were redeemed.

[fiction-theory.livejournal.com]

Well, the auto-restock would work the same way, I imagine, and triggers the same response that eventually leads to the franchise ordering more of the book, so my guess is the author gets royalties just the same

I was a bit worried about that, because I know that gift cards are sort of a "pay now, get later" thing. But my main concern is whether the author gets their royalties (meager as they might be).

I don't have a lot of cash this Christmas, so I was going to ask for bookstore gift cards for presents from various friends/family who were asking, and I wanted to make sure that it would wonkify anyone's numbers.

Thanks for answering that, BTW.