The end of the Writer’s Digest Book Club?
by Rob - February 14th, 2009.Filed under: Uncategorized.
Twenty-six years ago, on January 4, 1983, I joined the Writer’s Digest Book Club. I bought a lot of books from them over the years — my friend book-collector Jack Brooks once remarked, looking at bookcases in my home, that I had the largest private collection of books about writing he’d ever seen. I let my membership lapse some years ago, though, but thought I’d check out what they were up to these days.
The URL WritersDigestBookClub.com now points to a page labeled Writer’s Digest Book Shop, and leads off with a note that says, “Please note that we are no longer accepting new members.” So, it looks like they’re essentially gone.
It’s very hard for book clubs of any type to survive in the era of Amazon.com (which discounts books so much that their prices aren’t much different than the special book-club prices, plus offers free shipping). But, still, this was one that I was fond off, and I’m sad to see it go.
The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site