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Originally Posted by fjtorres
No. You are not.
No consumer is obliged to support any business for any reason other than receiving fair value in goods and/or services for your hard earned money.
There is no reason to guilt-trip yourself for acting rationally (in both the economics and real world senses). And paying for something you can legally/ethically/morally get for "free" (you pay your local taxes, right?) is not rational.
It is up to them to offer up something useful or of value that you can't get elsewhere if they want your money.
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Thanks. Not really guilt, because obviously I cannot myself keep a bookstore open. But I understand why they are leaving. And I don't think my behavior is irrational. A quarter of the store is taken up with "stuff," rather than books. There used to be a section for staff picks, but now it was teen bestsellers and children's bestsellers in addition to NYT bestsellers.
I remember before ereaders, before the internet, really, you could spend hours in a bookstore, just taking a look at all the books. Now, they just have the stuff I see on the internet. I did pick up the books n bytes magazine, and learned about the book "California." It looked good, so I recommended it to my library.
I guess my lament is about the lack of personal interaction in our current society. It used to be, if you wanted to see a movie, you went to the theatre. If you wanted to buy a book, you went to a book store. If you wanted groceries, yarn, clothing, just about anything but a car, you went someplace, probably several someplaces, and interacted with people. Now, you see young people texting back and forth when they are sitting right next to each other!
Oh well, The world will continue on, I suppose.