I just got an email from Fatbrain.com telling me they are now part of barnes and noble. the FAQ is here I am wondring how this will effect the isbn links in the Monastery as well as the kickback vroom gets for them? Anyone know about this?

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Re: BN.com aquires fatbrain
by Desdinova (Friar) on Mar 02, 2002 at 04:56 UTC
    I did some more digging around on fatbrain's site and found this which implies that the payback thing is going away for fatbrain but bn.com will offer thier own.

    If you dont know what this node is talking about see this one
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Re: BN.com aquires fatbrain
by ralphie (Friar) on Mar 02, 2002 at 19:32 UTC
    actually, bn bought fatbrain over a year ago. i suspect they are just getting around to rolling their site into the bn site. i think you would have noticed some changes over the time if you'd been aware of it. for one, i've noticed that they seem to have fewer items in stock since the acquisition. nothing against bn per se, but i miss the old fatbrain too.
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Re: BN.com aquires fatbrain
by tjh (Curate) on Mar 02, 2002 at 13:51 UTC
    I received their email this a.m. also. Change continues.

    I have over a dozen of those FatBrain hats, and used to shop in their past life retail "Computer Literacy Bookstore" in San Jose, CA. It was easy to spend too much time in there.

    I comparison shopped a basket of books last Oct, Amazon vs FatBrain. FatBrain won on price. That wasn't always true, but often was. They'll be missed eh?

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FYI -- Try bookpool.com
by Rex(Wrecks) (Curate) on Mar 04, 2002 at 23:56 UTC
    They are even better priced than fatbrain was! The only way I order anywhere else is if bookpool.com doesn't have it.

    Prices are really good and service is excellent as well. Barnes&Noble have screwed up my orders once too often already.

    "Nothing is sure but death and taxes" I say combine the two and its death to all taxes!

    edit: neophyte - took link out of title
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