[HPforGrownups] Borders

[summers.65 at osu.edu]

No: HPFGUIDX 2497


This is your friendly neighborhood Borders employee speaking.

>1) Borders bookstores ( for those overseas, a major US chain)
>has a new 'gift certificate' card, $20 denomination, with the US GoF
>cover portion showing Harry's (and Cedric's) faces.
>
These have been around for almost a month.  The gift cards are wonderfully
conveninient, much more so than a paper gift certificate.  They're usable
at any Borders or at borders.com and retain the unused balance.

>2) Borders September flyer also says 'prepay for a Harry Potter 2001
>calendar and get a coupon for 15% off any other 2001 calendar' - not
>available online - also not repeated in the October flyer.
>
The HP calendars should be coming in, I'm told, sometimes in mid October.
I already have mine reserved.  There are two, a wall calendar and a
day-to-day cube calendar.  The deal is, reserve one now, and *when you pick
it up and pay for it* you'll receive a coupon for 10% off your next
purchase, whatever it is.  I'm told that Borders will also be getting other
HP merchandise exclusive to us, like mugs and pennants and such.

>4) Finally, at least my bigger local Borders cafe's drink for October
>is a 'Pumpkin Smoothie' and the 'Valos coffee of the month' is
>'Pumpkin Spice', for those who thought the Pumpkin drink in the books
>was interesting.
>
Actually the Pumpkin Spice coffee (which is really good) was our coffee of
the month for September.

I might also note that the following books are coming out soon, like in the
next month or so:

"Writing: A Memoir" by Stephen King
"The Last Precinct" by Patricia Cornwell
"The Prodigal Summer" by Barbara Kingsolver

Lori, bookstore goddess




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Lori   "Too Much Ponch, Not Enough Jon"  Summers

        "I always say you can get further with a kind word and a
                two-by-four than just a kind word."  -Marcus

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