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Author:  zwackerm [ Tue Jul 14, 2015 11:49 pm ]
Post subject:  How does everyone buy books?
Bookstores are becoming an endangered species. Barnes and Noble is the last major chain in the states, and even they may not last for too long. How do people get books here? Do you go to a bookstore? Online? Or do you read an e-reader?

If Barnes and Noble closes, I don't know what I will do with my life.
Author:  Algren [ Wed Jul 15, 2015 12:02 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How does everyone buy books?
A lot of people order online these days. If I buy a book, it is usually in passing through airports.
Author:  stuffp [ Wed Jul 15, 2015 12:58 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How does everyone buy books?
Don't know why you can only choose 1 option here. If I do, it's usually in a book store, but I would buy online. I've also bought plenty of books secondhand.
Author:  Corpse [ Wed Jul 15, 2015 1:49 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How does everyone buy books?
Bookstore. There's a Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, so I frequent them.

The only books I buy online are manga volumes. Since there's limited space in bookstores, and some series having 20, 30, 40, or more volumes, there's often times certain volumes that just aren't available in store.

I'm not interested in e-reading.
Author:  Algren [ Wed Jul 15, 2015 1:56 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How does everyone buy books?
I rarely buy books. I read a lot of articles instead. The last book I read was Arnold Schwarzenegger's autobiography, Total Recall.
Author:  BJ [ Wed Jul 15, 2015 3:34 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How does everyone buy books?
Audio books from audible, paper/hard back from Barnes. I tend to get a digital audible copy and a hard copy at the same time. I don't do any e-reading.
Author:  Algren [ Wed Jul 15, 2015 5:11 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How does everyone buy books?
This should really go in the book forum.
Author:  Mister Ecks [ Wed Jul 15, 2015 6:21 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How does everyone buy books?
That thriving metropolis, the Book subforum.

I read unimportant books on my Kindle, but I've been getting back into reading the hardcover/paperbacks as well. There are Coles and Chapters here to buy from.
Author:  MadGez [ Wed Jul 15, 2015 7:04 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How does everyone buy books?
Has Borders shut shop in the US??

I recall buying The Wolf of Wall Street from the Borders around the corner from Wall St back in 09. Nice memory.

All the Borders closed here in 2011 which is a bummer. So I basically just buy from Amazon as well as random boutique bookstores, department stores, airports etc.

I hardly get time to read these days so have a massive queue of books to get through.
Author:  Algren [ Wed Jul 15, 2015 7:32 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How does everyone buy books?
There was a Borders in Cardiff about ten years ago. Not sure if it's still there, but Waterstones are still around. I think there's a different culture in the UK anyway. Book stores are popular. Second-hand book stores are too, as well as charity shop book sections, and discount book stores (though they close down frequently -- probably more to do with seasonal shopping that culture). It's part of the experience that people like to peruse a physical book store as well as hold and read a book. Libraries, on the other hand, seem to struggle. Not sure why. There was an initiative to get people back to libraries a few years back. Not sure of the outcome of that.
Author:  Algren [ Wed Jul 15, 2015 7:36 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How does everyone buy books?
MadGez wrote:
I hardly get time to read these days so have a massive queue of books to get through.

That's like me and movies. I have 105 to watch. But I do actually watch movies, like, two to four times a week. The pile is just never-ending. As for books, I have 0.5 proper books in my queue, and the rest are made up of two survival guides and a Mandarin learner's book.

By the way, that's pretty neat to buy The Wolf of Wall Street just off Wall Street.
Author:  zwackerm [ Wed Jul 15, 2015 8:09 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How does everyone buy books?
Algren wrote:
This should really go in the book forum.

No one goes in the book forum.
Author:  Algren [ Wed Jul 15, 2015 8:33 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How does everyone buy books?
And nobody ever will if you create all the good book topics elsewhere.
Author:  Chippy [ Wed Jul 15, 2015 10:07 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How does everyone buy books?
I don't really buy books much. But if/when I do, I go into a bookstore.
Author:  Price [ Wed Jul 15, 2015 10:45 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How does everyone buy books?
I don't read them, I just burn them. Must have some German blood in me.
Author:  Groucho [ Wed Jul 15, 2015 12:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How does everyone buy books?
I said "other" because I get books online from Amazon but will browse bookstores when I can find one, and also go to literary conventions where there are dealers and authors with books to sell.
Author:  FILMO [ Wed Jul 15, 2015 5:32 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How does everyone buy books?
with money!


theheeeeeeee
:zonks:
Author:  David [ Wed Jul 15, 2015 6:48 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How does everyone buy books?
Bookstore or Amazon. But always a physical copy. I do not have an e-reading device.
Author:  publicenemy#1 [ Wed Jul 15, 2015 8:44 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How does everyone buy books?
Amazon has books so much cheaper than in store so I usually order from them. (although I guess if you don't have Prime it's a bitch to pay for shipping)
Author:  Jmart [ Thu Jul 16, 2015 4:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How does everyone buy books?
Bookstore, a store like Wal-Mart or Target, or a supermarket.
Author:  nghtvsn [ Mon Aug 17, 2015 8:54 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How does everyone buy books?
I do buy books from Barnes & Noble on occasion. Those cheap "bargain" ones and I also buy books from Go Hastings and Goodwill.
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