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I feel badly, because book stores are fun to hang out in, and employee people, but if their best value is making good recommendations, then they are in trouble. If you trust recommendation engines, then Amazon is just as good; if you don't, then this site is just as good. A book store owner cannot have read every book out there, or know you well enough to make brilliant suggestions, while sites like this one and models like Amazon's aggregate enough data to possibly get it right.
The most expensive way for me to buy a book is to drive to the book store on my way home. The cheapest way to get a physical book is to wait, order a few at once (free shipping), and take advantage of Amazon or Chapter's online discounts. The cheapest and fastest way to get the content, however, is to buy the ebook and start reading in seconds. If ebooks win out, the combination of fastest and cheapest will be a big part of the reason why.
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