Talk:Better World Books

message: Go to http://www.dnb.com/us/
At the right of the screen is a dialog box named "Find a Company".  Type in "Better World Books" and choose the state of Indiana and you will see the records for QUMPUS, INC. 
Also Traded as BETTER WORLD BOOKS 55740 CURRANT RD, MISHAWAKA, IN. That is the same address listed on the Better World Books contact page.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.97.37.210 (talk) 19:44, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Not to be overly critical, but what does the "Qumpus" name have to do with anything? JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs) 22:01, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  DUN & BRADSTREET 

message: The Indiana Secretary of State database https://secure.in.gov/sos/bus_service/online_corps/name_search.aspx
In the dialog box type "QUMPUS" and click "submit" to see the same results, Better Wolrd Books is owned by QUMPUS described by the Indiana Secretary of State as QUMPUS, INC. Legal For-Profit Foreign Corporation MISHAWAKA, IN.  If you type in "Better World Books" the database returns no listing.
Of note, since the inception of this article it has been set up as an advertisement.  The laudatory comments about Better World Books are promotional in nature. --Tintle (talk) 19:58, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Indiana Secretary of State 

message: On September 19, 2006, an anonymous user (71.106.117.122) who exclusively wrote Wikipedia contributions on Better World Books, and only between September 7 and 20, 2006, deleted the parts of this article that were somewhat critical of the BWB enterprise, as can be seen here: , and also the sources of this article, without any reason given. If you look at the history of the article, you see it's a pattern. Several times referenced critical views were put in the article; they always were removed by User:Fritzlovesmaggie, who, like anonymous user 71.106.117.122, has been writing about BWB solely, and only between March 23, 2006 and October 2, 2006.  
I'm going to restore the latest critical version, and add another reference (I came across BWB being a book buyer on Abebooks, and noticed BWB's woefully inadequate book descriptions and other hallmarks of a 'megalister' - this reference will tell you more about BWB as a megalister). Soczyczi 08:52, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Renamed sections/moved information for neutrality; left referenced critical remarks. Removed NPR references "Reports via NPR in January of 2006 state that yearly revenue is above 6 millions USD.", "In recent interviews by National Public Radio, the company refused to disclose its actual revenue or full donation allocations.", as not verifiable - search for “Better World Books” and "betterworldbooks.com" on NPR.org had no results. Corrected misnomer of “non-profit organization” as it is not. Literacy123 21:58, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Systematical elimination of critical remarks

message: Anonymous user 69.207.232.204, please refer to Wikipedia:Neutral Point of View, please avoid posting opinions as part of encyclopedia entry. Critical points of book listing are already addressed in article - see first sentence under "Online Sales" for megalister link, external links to NACS discussion & Independent Online Booksellers Association Newsletter's megalister Discussion. I edited to adhere to Wikipedia:Manual of Style, moving description of BWB under title, and edited impact section to include a critical POV. Please cite verifiable sources (refer to Wikipedia:Verifiability) for further edits. Thanks - Literacy123 13:45, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Maintaining Neutral Point Of View

message: I just did a revert, mainly because the previous edits had destroyed the lead paragraph. However, a number of the citations in the previous version aren't valid. Specifically, a number of them are links to the site's main page, or a search page. If this information is to be included, it needs source links that work. Also, this mess doesn't belong in the lead, but a separate section further down. JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs) 00:24, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: BetterWorld should be merged here. It's an article for BWB's website, but it wouldn't pass WP:WEB from what I can see. JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs) 19:01, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs) 01:34, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: Why are there no less than twelve footnotes after a single very mundane introductory sentence? It looks ridiculous. The footnotes outnumber facts in the sentence by about 4 to 1. -R. fiend (talk) 16:46, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this how we do stuff now? 

message: For me the phrase
The company discloses information about funds raised, books re-used or recycled, and books donated in a ticker at the top of its website.
has absolutely no interest. Also this phrase is followed by 2 footnotes that seem useless in this case.
OK for remove?--Bretelle (talk) 11:58, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that the sentence is awkward but, as you can see looking over the earlier discussions on this Talk Page, some editors wanted to include critical material that was not reliably sourced, so it might be just as well to leave the sentence to show the nature of the operation, or maybe move the sentence from the lead to someplace below.ch (talk) 07:23, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this worth writing? 

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