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Originally Posted by 4691mls
My local Books-a-million store closed several years ago. I've been buying ebooks from the online store for a few years and they've always had tons of emails with coupons. Unfortunately none of the coupons ever seems to be good on ebooks.
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That seems to confirm my suspicion that BAM never was interested in getting into ebooks in a big way. For whatever reason, they've decided to have only a token presence in that business. I can't think of another company which went that route. Can anyone else?
Charles (Anderson) must have a lot of business acumen. He went from having an independent bookstore in a downtown store in a relatively small town to building a huge dead-tree distribution system for the benefit of his company and other vendors (I think), and a widespread collection of big B&M stores of his own. (But he's certainly no Jeff Bezos!). Perhaps he could see that the ebook business was going to be saturated, the weaker companies would go out of business, and that that business just didn't have long-term prospects to be profitable for the majority of companies. That's just my guess. That has been proven true, so far, to a great degree. But, I'm "sure" that his big B&M stores are struggling, too.
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Originally Posted by 4691mls
I always download books I buy from any store as soon as I buy them - I've never understood why anyone wouldn't do this.
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Because some of us spend waaaay too much time on this Internet list, when we should be spending our time doing things like that. That's one of my reasons. And my issue with GBTIism (Get Back to It-ism).