(Lack of) Book Sale at William Lane Craig event
William Lane Craig was here giving a lecture- "How can a loving God allow suffering?". This is part of the UCCF nation-wide "Reasonable Faith" tour.
I (with Martin and Ian) brought a couple of books to sell as part of the tour, thinking that there would be a good response for the sale of these books. To my deep disappointment, we sold probably about 10 copies (out of about 70 copies). The official UCCF table didn't sell much as well.
To be honest, I was shocked. "Reasonable Faith" was going for 10 pounds. 10 pounds... dude.. the retail price is 17.99 pounds- even IVP sells it to us for a higher price than 10 pounds, yet there wasn't that many takers.
Why don't people in Cambridge buy books? They do.... when CUP has its 2 pounds sale, there're loads of people... Galloway and Porter has quite a good customer base.. okay, maybe Heffers, Borders and Waterstones are not doing as well.. but it's an event and people normally buy books at an event, or don't they?
Sigh.. guess I'm really quite disappointed. Maybe it's really different here. (where's "here"- Cambridge, UK or ??).
Many people were also not familar with philosophical arguments, so it was difficult as well trying to convince them to buy philosophical books. Sigh.
At least, my wife made me some soup... some warm comfort for an otherwise lukewarm night.
I (with Martin and Ian) brought a couple of books to sell as part of the tour, thinking that there would be a good response for the sale of these books. To my deep disappointment, we sold probably about 10 copies (out of about 70 copies). The official UCCF table didn't sell much as well.
To be honest, I was shocked. "Reasonable Faith" was going for 10 pounds. 10 pounds... dude.. the retail price is 17.99 pounds- even IVP sells it to us for a higher price than 10 pounds, yet there wasn't that many takers.
Why don't people in Cambridge buy books? They do.... when CUP has its 2 pounds sale, there're loads of people... Galloway and Porter has quite a good customer base.. okay, maybe Heffers, Borders and Waterstones are not doing as well.. but it's an event and people normally buy books at an event, or don't they?
Sigh.. guess I'm really quite disappointed. Maybe it's really different here. (where's "here"- Cambridge, UK or ??).
Many people were also not familar with philosophical arguments, so it was difficult as well trying to convince them to buy philosophical books. Sigh.
At least, my wife made me some soup... some warm comfort for an otherwise lukewarm night.
posted by Pongism at 11:14 pm
1 Comments:
I suppose we live in an anti-intellectual society... might also be that we're just too cheap to spend money on books. All of which is tragic.
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