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Originally Posted by NickyWithNook
I have a friend who co-owns a local bookstore, and she says the same kind of thing. I think what it boils down to is they know ereaders are hard on their business and resent them. I know there's a way to buy books from Googlebooks and support your idependant bookstore, but I also know that doesn't happen very often. I kind of wish ebooks could be bought by going to any bookstore and scanning a code on a book and then purchasing, and whatever book store you were at would get the sale. But that isn't how they work.
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i've also thought of this before, and i wish this were possible. i really do feel badly for independent bookstores, but unfortunately, money talks with a really loud voice. i try to do what i can to help by buying in local bookstores (my local store also offers to cover the books with plastic for free, so that's an added incentive to buy) when i see something i like there.
as i've mentioned on other threads before, i was recently in a Barnes & Noble when I was in Hawaii, and what really irked me is that they (unlike the shops here) have all the books out of their plastic packaging. it prevented me from buying one book on top of my TBR list because the pages were already dirty, and i wasn't paying $26 for a dirty book. i wonder why can't they just have one copy open for viewing and the rest still in their packaging. is this a cultural thing, i wonder? most people here don't mind a setup like that at all, but i guess it might be different in the US.