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We stopped doing Scholastic Book Fairs for this reason: table top and no
cash register.

I was told we didn't make enough money for the company.  Sent a scathing
letter as far up the company hierarchy as I could find.

Profit is one thing.  Goodwill is another.  Surely volume will decrease
with this policy,

For a poor school district, it was particularly vexing.

Mary

Mary Spevacek
Teacher Librarian
East Aurora High School
mspevacek at d131.org
224-425-3244

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> We just set up a tabletop this afternoon. It looks good but were unable to
> use many of the table top displays as we have mostly free-standing table
> and I am afraid of the displays getting knocked over. My big disappointment
> is no cash register. It's like going back to the 1980s. Very
> time-consumming.
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> So this year is the first year that I will be having the tabletop book
>> fair by Scholastic. Has anyone had one yet? I have had the "big-case" book
>> fairs for the past 3 years and loved them. Now Scholastic throws this at me
>> and says that there won't be cases or a cash register. I am a bit afraid of
>> the unknown when it comes to this.
>>
>> Any pointers? Any advice?
>>
>>
>> *Mr. Tim Yoder*
>>
>> Librarian
>> Harvard Junior High School
>> 1301 North Garfield Street
>> Harvard, IL 60033
>> 815-943-6466 ext.2337
>> Fax 815-943-8521
>>
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