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Originally Posted by Hatgirl
But is this just me? Before they bought their eReaders, did everyone else on the board mainly buy their paperbacks and hardbacks new, as publishers seem to think? Poll time!
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I couldn't whole-heartedly select one of your poll options but I can explain myself (Argh! Everyone moaned)!
Purchasing a plethora of books is one of my little pleasures. Bargain sections the world (well, City!) over are my plaything. Then again, I love to shop discount by going on-line to one of the many fine internet accessible mail-order retailers and loading up a virtual shopping cart of goodness. Then again, I have zero qualms with simply popping in to my local independently run or so-big-your-brains-will-fall-out-fathoming-it-all super bookstores and grabbing a new item off of the shelf and throwing it on the counter with disgusting braggadocio as I whip out my ten year old Perry Ellis wallet and flash my plastic (Debit!).
Enter e-books! Mail order and retail shopping are basically intact because buying an e-book is basically like purchasing something from a web site or going to a retail location in our electronic era. But the bargain shopping is basically toast (sizzled and zapped).
I'm hoping a true bargain bin/remainders something or other is erected (!) in the future digital domain so that I can get truly good books that were expensive but the retailer could not manage to move for prices that make me feel like I'm thefting them.