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Originally Posted by basschick
when i go to a physical bookstore, i tend to respectfully (no bending or damaging the books) read a little to see if i'll like a book before i buy it. since in my life i have bought literally thousands of books (okay, a bunch were replacements, but still...), i don't see that the publishers are missing out.
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Oh, I am
bad about this. A few weeks ago I went to B&N to pick up some technical books and picked up 15 on one topic, skimmed through all of them, and bought 4. The rest were
garbage, but those four had what I needed, and were worth paying $30-$50 a pop for. I would have bought them in ebook format, but I don't have a large format eReader yet, and most of them weren't available.
I do feel rather like like a pinchpenny though when I go to B&N to research a topic, skim through 15, and then buy them in the Kindle app on my way out...