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Dogwise.com is a terrific dog bookstore and publisher, firmly in the camp of cutting-edge positive dog training methods. Like all businesses, they are noticing the economy. Here is part of an email that I got from them a few days ago:

Like a lot of businesses throughout the country, the current recession has impacted us as well. For Dogwise, cutting edge training and dog care books and DVDs continue to be in hot demand (thank goodness and thank you!).

What we have seen, however, is that certain items – which in a strong economy we would expect to sell at a good pace – have slowed down significantly. Books that keep sitting on our shelves don’t do us a lot of good, even if we think highly of them.

As booksellers we have two choices, one being to return them and the other is to offer to them to you at a steep discount.

We have chosen the latter, and if you head to our clearance section (there is a tab on the top of our home page) you will see that we reduced prices on clearance items dramatically, most are now selling for well under 50% of their suggested price. So take advantage! All clearance items are first come first served and will not be reordered.

I’ve been in the book trade for decades, as librarian, writer, and publisher, and I was impressed with their choice to sell their books off rather than return them. Book publishing is an unusual industry in that bookstores and wholesales have the right to return books that don’t sell to the original publishers. When I was running a small press publishing company, that part wasn’t fun. Kudos to Dogwise for taking the high road.

And here’s a great chance for us to get some great bargains! While you are there, check out their 2010 dog breed calendars!

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