Nifty Cross-Channel Experience with B&N
B&N’s “pick me up” is a great cross-channel integration. I’m using my fantasy baseball drafts as a reason to finally learn a Mac-OSX database program, specifically FileMaker Pro. According to bn.com, “The Missing Manual” for FMP appears to be available at the Park Slope store. I signed up to have someone to reserve the book for me and here’s the confirmation:
In the next couple hours, I’m supposed to get an email telling me the book is there. I love how they took any possible confusion out of the process — ‘don’t come to the store’ till you get the email, give the email about an hour. I just did it a few minutes ago, so the only possible room for annoyance is if I just don’t get an email and I have no idea how to track the request. Still, it’s pretty cool.
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UPDATE: In less than an hour, I got both my email and a text message. Pretty sweet.
Interesting. Are you now a BN convert? Btw your image is stretched again.. lately that appears to happen quite a bit on your posts…
Not really converted, except in rare instances where I must have the pressed-pulp version of a book.
Re: Images, what are you viewing it with? I’m not seeing the stretches on OSX Fireforx or Safari. I’m using the height=”x%” width=”x%” to scale the image.