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Who
Supports the Society?
As
a very new organization, the SLS relies primarily
on Society Memberships
to bring revenues that will help to offset the
costs in developing the site. Memberships of
different types have been established at a nominal
cost of 1- to 3- dollars (Canadian) per month, paid
annually, in the hope that no one will be prevented
from joining due to financial circumstances.
Additionally, affiliate accounts have been arranged
with two reputable online booksellers,
Abebooks
and Barnes
& Noble,
companies
which provide a small commission on purchases made
through the use of the links on this site at no
additional cost to the buyer.
Just
Say No (to Amazon)
Very
often websites containing bibliographies will have
an underlined link directing the visitor to a book
purchasing site - Please Note: All of the
hyperlinked titles in this site open to
pages of review and commentary, not book-buying
sites. Links to sites where the book can be
ordered online are separately noted on the pages as
ABE
(for used, rare and out of print) and
B&N
(for new editions from the publisher). On
principle, we have not arranged an affiliation with
Amazon.com because of its aggressive marketing; the
websites we have linked to focus solely on books,
music and videos. A few notes for anyone who is new
to ABEbooks or Barnes&Noble are included below.
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Abebooks
is a remarkable collective of thousands of
independent booksellers worldwide who have
listed their inventories into one vast database of
40 million used, rare and collectible books for
purchase online.
For anyone who loves books of all kinds, searching
through the database is a joy in itself; not only
because of the frequency with which one may come
across an extraodinary book not heard of before,
but also because of the interesting and at times
endearing notes appended to the title on sale, such
as the description of an old copy of The Divided
Self, below:
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"The end paper has a smudged erasure mark on the
top corner which does not want to come off and I
fear the paper would start to wear if one tried to
hard..so I stopped! The jacket has a large
triangular piece missing from the bottom front
corner with flap that means all but the first
letter of the word "madness" in the subtitle are
lost."
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-
The Book Business, London W7 3QS, United
Kingdom
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Barnes
& Noble offer
a very high standard of quality and
efficiency in the sale of
direct-from-publisher books, music and
videos online. In additon to providing
first quality books in print, they have
also set up an online University to
encourage education without borders.
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·
Please
use these links to purchase books - it helps these
excellent companies
as well as the SLS ·
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