Cheap books and freeee books

Our friends at Book Closeouts (well, my friends at Book Closeouts, by which I mean that they send me money from time to time…) just added a bunch of copies of the strip collection Snoopy’s Guide to the Writing Life to their inventory, and they’re running a pretty good deal at the moment, so I thought it was time to look at what they have for the Peanuts fans.

Now remember these are remainder books, so they’ll have a little marker line along the pages (generally on the bottom edge), but otherwise are generally in good shape (unless you buy one marked “scratch & dent”). So these books are fine unless you’re giving them as a gift to someone who is book-aware, who will see the mark and know that you were being cheap — but odds are, they already know that about you anyway!

Peaunts/Schulz items in stock:

So what’s the good deal? For every buck you spend on these books — or any other book in the store — you get a free buck worth of books from a selection of 5000 books. No Peanuts books in the freebie pile, but there’s LuannGet Fuzzy, La Cucaracha, Baby Blues, Tina’s Groove, Mutts, Foxtrot, and of course thousands of non-comics books, audiobooks, and so forth (need a VHS tape of Abbott & Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld?). After you click through to the site, click on the Promotions button on the top banner for details.

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Costco eases out of books

Membership-based store chain Costco has announced that they are backing out of carrying books as a year-round item, the New York Times reports. Those big tables filled with stacks of best-sellers and deluxe and kid-friendly titles will instead just be dragged out for the last third of the year, for …

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Sam’s Club special

AAUGH Blog reader Bill alerted us to the fact the Sam’s Club stores have the boxed set The Peanuts Collection for a mere $11.98, about $9 less than when Costco had that set two years ago, and far far less than the total cost of the enclosed books (The Peanuts …

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Various post-holiday notes

I hope that all of you who were Christmassing had a good one, and all of you who are Hannukafying are taking pleasure in these last few hours of the festival. Me, I not only got presents for both holidays, I got Peanuts presents for both. I’ll have pictures of …