Eh, sorry for the snippiness. I can't expect you to memorize everything I say no matter how awesome my posts are.
(sarcasm directed at myself, not you.)
Yeah, the "discounts" on hardcovers and bestsellers are pretty ridiculous seeing as how they're marked up heavily before the discount so that they can slap that 40% sticker on it. Customers aren't stupid enough to fall for that.
Browsing is so important for physical stores -- it's what separates them from Amazon since they really can't compete on price. I'm distraught to see that my favorite B&N has removed all the soft chairs from the store because people who browse for books are apparently dirty freeloaders according to store management.
Considering that I'd planned to use the soft chairs to "read in store" and buy a book a week as a weekly treat, that was a bad call on their part. Now I'm addicted to the Amazon Kindle sales and Amazon just got... carry the 2... round the .99 to a dollar... I'm not sure. I bought 40+ books in their recent sale so it's something between $40 (at a dollar each) and $160 (at four bucks each).
I'll bet B&N would have liked to have that money........
