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Originally Posted by K. Molen
I've mentioned this elsewhere, but I have zero problems with the whole showroom issue. Especially because it constantly goes both ways. I've often used Amazon and other online stores to do my research, and then gone out and done the buying locally.
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Great point, I've used Amazon's reviews a ton of times before heading out to a local bookstore. And for ebooks, I typically browse Amazon before buying from the Kobo or Sony store. It's funny that Amazon never complains about all the big bad independent stores taking advantage of their infrastructure.
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Originally Posted by K. Molen
But I don't think either behaviour is wrong. It's just the way retail works in the modern world, and I think it would be a mistake to try to artificially impose restrictions on it in order to cling to the past. I'm not even that hardcore of a freemarket capitalist, no I consider myself left of center politically, I just have no sentimental attachment to the whole idea of maintaining a presence of local community merchants.
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I cannot say "this" hard enough.