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Originally Posted by Over
I think Alexie touches an interesting subject: supporting local business. When I go to a bookstore and buy a book, I'm helping my local economy, local people, suporting jobs. With ebooks, that's gone aways. It's like if everyone suddenly decided to import books from a central place, instead of buying locally all over the world.
Someday we won't even have to look at another human face, live, for weeks at a time.
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I am located in the Pacific Northwest. Home to Amazon, for me buying a Kindle and Ebooks from Amazon is local. I am supporting a local company.
There is also the sales tax that is
paid on internet sales. Washington state streamlined the collection of internet sales tax back in 2007. At that time 21 other states we already taxing internet sales.
This is not a new legislation. I can purchase from other companies over the internet and my state is still collecting money from the transaction.
What about people who deliver or service the Ebook readers? By using a reader aren't you supporting a growing industry?
We will always need people around use. The more high tech that a person is the more people they need in their life. Alexie is using a buzz phrase of 'shop local' which doesn't hold much weight in the ebook arguement.