Mike
After an out of print Osprey book? Use your wishlist to let us know!
June 24, 2009 12:00 AM
As I mentioned a while back, we are always looking into ways that we can improve our stock levels so that as few of our books are unavailable as possible. The problems - as you can imagine with over 1.500 books are not always easy to deal with.
But one of our hopes with the construction of our new website was that we would be able to track what you want more effectively - meaning that the more popular requests would be brought back faster and in bigger quantities, which in turn would allow us to do short run printings of the more obscure topics which are still requested on a regular basis.
And I am pleased to announce that we are now able to do just this - using your Osprey wishlist. For anyone who has not used the Osprey wishlist yet - it is something that you can get access to when you register on our website. It allows you to log in to the site and pick and choose the books that you really want to buy. It is an email-able list, so if someone wants to buy you a present, you can also forward them a list of the books that you would like.
What we are now able to do is to track the number of times that a book appears on all of your wishlists, and every month, these wishlist statistics will be used to help us plan to what books we reprint. So, if you are after a particular Osprey book, make sure that you add it to your wishlist - the more people who do so, the more likely it is that the book you want will be reprinted.
We are also confident that over the next few months we will be able to notify you when any of the books on your wishlist come back into stock - so that you will never miss out!
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Great stuff Osprey team. You listen to your customers. Thank you.
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Fantastic news, a great idea by Osprey. When will this months reprints be announced?
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Just a small delay with the reprints announcement this month - hopefully will be up here later this week.
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Mike:
Would it be possible to have a sticky link to the monthly reprints?
Also could we have a link called REPRINTS and OUT OF STOCK to know which are available and not
xavier
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I agree with Xavier, it would be cool to be able to see at the click of a button what titles are available and what ones are not.
BTW: I highly suggest second hand book stores and Amazon.com's affiliates for out of print Osprey titles. Even some of long out of print titles can be found ... for a hefty price that is.
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