Monday, June 21, 2010

Wow! I guess Spring Arbor is CBA.

I went to SpringArbor.com to find out where or if I could get a list of books coming out through publishers who didn't pay for or write with in denominationally restrictive guidelines or rather weren't affiliated with the highly discriminating CBA market (you may visit cba.org to find out who their market actually is) and I found this wording under Technology Tools.

Spring Arbor supplies the most comprehensive book data in the CBA industry and we offer a variety of electronic tools designed to help you more efficiently do your job.

Okay. What about book data for all of the publishers Spring Arbor has approved who don't pay to belong to CBA? Why can't CBA do their own data base since the CBA market is an entirely different market who doesn't allow Spring Arbor's other publishers books into their bookstores?


Ipage provides 24/7 access to title information, real-time stock checks, order tracking, account management, industry news, and much more. companion, our CD-ROM based tool, provides the most robust search engine available and allows you to manage customer contacts.

All title information on all publishers and authors approved by Spring Arbor or just information on CBA affiliated publishers and their titles?

So far I've not seen any way to get a list of titles of Spring Arbor approved books that is anything other than CBA affiliated titles. Therefore Spring Arbor is CBA and might as well still be owned by this discriminating Christian market. So sad.

1 comment:

  1. Not surprised one bit. They (CBA, Spring Arbor, ECPA, et al.) **WANT** the rest of us to just die of obscurity. They give us token "approval" but it doesn't mean squat. It's all smoke and mirrors.

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