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Originally Posted by taming
I hadn't really thought about how I use the actual bricks and mortar Chapter's stores, but come to think of it, I go there only to buy books as gifts, especially for new babies/young children and to buy gift cards, also as gifts, for my older nieces and nephews. Before I bought my eReader, a Kobo, I had been purchasing almost all of my own books on line, sometimes through amazon.ca, sometimes through Chapters-Indigo.
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I used to give books as gifts and that was my major book purchase every year. Chapters/Indigo/Kobo is getting real money from me again -- all as ebooks (and the Kobo itself).
The very last time I bought a book at Chapters/Indigo B&M, it was $22. I got tome, and Chapters/Indigo was selling it for $16 online, amazon.com for $11 online. That was a couple of years ago. Coupled with the sad online experience Chapters/Indigo has typically presented, Amazon (.com and .ca and even .co.uk) has been practically my sole source of book buying for several years.
I do hope that kobobooks.com is doing some serious work behind the scenes to improve the search function and recommendation engine. I genuinely browse (and tag to my wishlist) at Amazon; at kobobooks, not so much.