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I am buying my recreational reading from Bewrite Books (no DRM, same price for everyone regardless or where you are) and making use of my university library for non-fiction works (and they also have an extensive online library for students). Because of warnings on the MR forum I managed to spend most of a very big gift voucher from Australian Borders before they went broke, that was the end of my Australian bookstore buying. I have only bought one rip-off price textbook for uni (no overseas supplier). Our local library now has ebooks on loan so I'll just wait on the queue if I ever have the urge to read the latest best-seller, but most of the time I wouldn't read them if they were going free anyhow.
I used to spend a lot of time browsing for new books, now I don't even bother going in the stores.
Australian consumers will vote with their credit cards - consumer electrical shops are starting to get the picture , but the book trade wants to stay in the 19th century.
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