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.