Posted on 02/20/2018 4:39:46 AM PST by foreverfree
“Kindle”
Yep. Although I prefer iBooks, I use the Kindle app. Free downloads for Prime members.
Yes, agree. Many things are fading away in this new videophone age. But the , I suppose a lot of people missed giving horses sugar cubes, going to theater plays, touching vinyl and seeing their developed camera prints that first time.
I imagine they will. But buy that time brick and mortar retail will be dead.
I also find it immoral to go to a store with no intention of buying there. Using the store to find what you want and then going on-line to make your purchase because you can get it cheaper. It is theft. You have stolen the stores time and resources.
Kids are not reading physical books. Might as well turn Barnes & Noble into coffee shops where they can sit and play with their phones and post to instagram.
I looked for the Limbaugh children’s books in the history children’s department at Barnes and Noble and couldn’t find them.
I asked the worker where the books were and she said, “They aren’t history books.” She had them in the fiction area.
I’ve been known to visit a retail store, try on a pair of shoes or boots, find the right fit...go home and order online.
A problem if you’re Jewish as we are specifically told in the Torah not to do that. So I try very hard not to do it. Just bought a balance bike from the great shop that let me try it out. Could have bought it cheaper online.
I hear a lot of people say they use brick and mortar stores that way. I daresay I find it rather distasteful. I don't mind people ordering online rather than going to a store; but it seems wrong to me to "use" the store to make an online purchase. Trying things on is a limitation of online selling and it is not fair to a brick and mortar store to try on things there and buy it elsewhere. Part of the higher prices the stores charge is in order to have all that merchandise for you to try on.
Online shopping good for some things, but for others, shopping in an actual store, and getting assistance from actual human beings, is preferable. It depends what you are buying, and how complicated your purchase is, in my opinion.
In my opinion, there should be room for both— both online shopping and flourishing retail stores, brick and mortar stores. One should not exclude the other.
And as the main subject here is books, here too, should be room.for both. I would hate to see Barnes and Noble go out of business. Again, there can be times when you use a Kindle or some sort of e-reader. And other times, you want to sit down and read an actual book, rather than look at a screen to read something.
Ultimately the market will decide how many retail stores stay and how many fold, because of internet shopping.
Wow, I just did that, and it is shocking. It is Pravda-like information erasure and propaganda. Why do they do such a grotesquely unfair thing?
I’m sure they’d tell you it’s an automatic algorithm, but that’s pretty hard to believe when there’s not a picture of Edison on the first page.
I despise Amazon to the very atomic level of my being.
I recycle my books thru local thrift shops mostly because used bookstores are rare.
www.moravianbookshop.com
EXACTLY
Just what I said to my son when I read the headlines...You'd walk in the store and there's be a round table - that you were forced to walk around to get to the rest of the store - piled high with the liberal books - to find any on conservatives, you would have, first, to know it was in print - and then ask at the counter, where, if they were feeling good that day, they'd bring out from under the counter...like it was porn.
Most of the book stores, large and small, have been practicing this form of CENSORSHIP for 30+ years. Even here in my little town, When my cousin, also a writer, had his books out - not even political, like his "Great Lobster Chase" - they would not carry because they knew him, a rock solid CONSERVATIVE who also had columns that WERE political. So, they boycotted him in his own town.
BTW, there were 5 book stores downtown then - only one left 0 the "Left Bank" - Don't be looking for any conservative books tho.
Agree always something new to read no batteries required.
I do that too. The only exception is for gifts. My wife and daughter don’t do kindle so paper it is. I want to hold the book in my hand, see the size of it, the font, stuff like that. Can’t do that at Amazon.
Indeed I don’t know how any bookstore can make it these days. Easiest thing to sell and ship for Amazon.
I’m cheap so if I can get all my books at the library I do. I prefer a real book still, but if the only way to get the content is on my phone I’m fine with that as well.
That’s because eBay charges you to list items, so low cost items like older books are a waste to try to sell on eBay.
They give you a few free listings each month, but it isn’t worth the hassle for most folks.
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