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Originally Posted by moonshot
If I went into any book shop near me, which I do, I would see offers, buy two get one free or buy one get one half price and there is an offer on now buy one at full price and get another for £1. The supermarkets always sell paperbacks cheaper than Amazon; 2 for £7 or 3 for £10.
So yes there are plenty of people browsing the book shelves and reading the blurbs. They may come in with a book in mind and go out with another one or two that they found because they 'did' browse.
But many be mobile readers don't use books shops as much.
Shame you wont be responding because you could have with drawn the troll comment and agreed with me that people do buy books at random.
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You haven't described random behavior at all. Looking at the cover of a book, reading the blurb, reading endorsements of the book and reading some of the text and making a decision whether or not to buy a book is clearly not buying at random. That is simply using some of the techniques that people use to tell the difference between a book they might like and a book they might not like, it's non-random behavior. If they were buying books at random, assuming that because it was published it was good, they would reach out, grab a book and buy it.
Looking at the cover, reading the blurbs, endorsements, sampling the text are behavior that people would only engage in if they knew they could not assume that just because the book was published, it was a good book that they would like. There have been ample techniques for finding good books, it seems you ignore them because they undermine your premise.
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