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Powell's Q&A, Q&A | June 21, 2009
By Adam Schell
"As a husband who often lies to his wife, or tries to (small stuff, nothing scandalous — believe me), I can tell you first-hand that no married man I know can lie effectively to his wife"
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Sorry,
this contest ended May 22nd
But don't
fret - this month's
more modest contest
is just as much a kick in the pants!
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enter
to
WIN $1000 IN BOOKS!
two runners-up will each win $100 in books
because if you
do not enter, you will not
WIN
$1000 IN BOOKS
and that would
be a shame.
What would you do with a $1000 credit?
Last year, we asked staff members that same question and compiled our own
answer. We chose 70
books (from $1.50 to $75). To enter the contest, entrants were
expected to guess the total number of pages in those books. The answer
was 22,142.
This year, the guy responsible for counting pages went on vacation,
so you don't have to guess nothing. Just enter your email address
below for a chance to win a $1000 credit at Powells.com.
try our free newsletter, powellsBOOKs.news
- only one issue if you don't like it
about powellsBOOKs.news:
Unfortunately, when this contest went to print,
powellsBOOKs.news was stuck in Auckland after four days at the First
Annual Newsletters Conference and Trade Show. We'd be lying if we didn't
admit a trace of déjà vu but this is totally different than the time two
winters ago when our newsletter left her lights on at a Broncos game and
missed the flight back from Denver. This time, missing the contest isn't
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subscribed.
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Every now and then, our overachieving newsletter introduces you to your next favorite book.
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our role helping to pioneer opt-in mail policies - has earned us a
worldwide reputation as a trustworthy, user-friendly site.
Click
here (if you want) to read more.
Sorry,
this contest
ended May 22nd!
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THE FINE PRINT:
Powell's employees and members of their immediate family
are not eligible. Duh.
The winner must be at least eighteen years old
because young people have plenty to be smug about already without winning
this contest. Furthermore, the person who wins should like books. Surely
you can understand what a drag it would be if the winner replied to our
congratulatory notice by saying something like, "Oh, I thought you guys
sold CDs, too. No? Just books? But I don't like to read." Then we find
out the winner is the guy from the back of your English class who always
swore he'd read the assignment yet could never identify the story's setting.
("No, Richard," Miss Piligian would reply - she had the patience of an angel,
Miss Piligian did - "The Scarlet Letter was not set in Salinas,
California.") Richard tells us, "I didn't think I'd win," explaining that
he'd only entered in the hope that by not winning his odds would be
that much better for the next drawing he tried, the Tri-State Pick-6
maybe, or next month's raffle at the Fish and Game.
"What are you saying?" Charlie asks him now - Charlie, he works in Marketing,
and he's fuming at this point - "that you'd rather we give you a
bucket of worms than a thousand dollars worth of
books?"
"Nightcrawlers?" Richard asks. Which is all it takes. Charlie shakes his
head, grabs the dog-eared copy of Robert Pirsig off his desk, and bolts
for the door. The rest of us just stand there all quiet, biting our lips.
Talk about a letdown. And this is the way The Fine Print ends, not with a
bang but a whimper. For official contest rules, click here.
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