Bob W wrote:
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From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have logged into Amazon and checked a book price or two
while in a local bookstore with my phone... Embarassing, eh?
but I hate to pay $40 for a book I can get for $25 by waiting
two days. ;-)
That's why there'll be no more bricks & mortar bookstores in a few years.
Amazon will charge whatever they want, and we will have lost the pleasure of
browsing for books. You won't be able to talk to knowledgable staff about
the books. The town centres will become dustbowls and the unemployment rate
will keep on rising. There'll be fighting in the streets, with our children
at our feet...
Well, perhaps not that bad. But what you're doing is what happened to all
the little photo shops, and so many other small shops. It all contributes to
the break-up of local communities and a fall in the quality of the goods and
the quality of living.
I've bought an awful lot from Amazon over the years, but almost only when I
haven't been able to get the book locally (which includes the West End of
London).
Support your local shops.
Bob
I have a reverse story -- one day I happened to be looking through my
"recommendations" list from Amazon and there was a book I'd never heard
of, but it looked really, really interesting. I happened to be passing
by Barnes & Noble an hour or so later, went in to check their price and
if they had it and all that, and there it was, sitting just on the
corner of a shelf where my eye caught it as I walked in. One sale for
B&N, compliments of Amazon's sales practices!!
Impatience will still help the brick & mortar stores somewhat, I think.
