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Originally Posted by Anke Wehner
What I was trying to get at is that just because we find books to read online, without regard where the book was published, we shouldn't forget in this discussion that a lot of other people find books to read in magazines, newspapers, TV, brick&mortar bookstores, libraries... "local" channels.
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I'm in the U.S. yet you are describing me. I usually find the next book(s) I want based on reviews in the print magazines and newspapers I subscribe to like the
Economist, the
New York Review of Books, the
Jewish Review of Books,
The Atlantic,
Smithsonian,
The New York Times, American Heritage, my local newspaper, and browsing in my local brick-and-mortar bookstores (where I also buy pbook hardcover copies of books regularly). I rarely find books to read based on online reviews (with the exception of here at MR), and I'm in the demographic that authors and publishers want because I buy on average 7-10 books a month, and quite often more. In addition, I am now often buying both the pbook and ebook versions of books -- the pbook to keep in my library, the ebook to read.