Good. Maybe they’ll think twice about hiring snooty, more-intelligent-than-thou clerks to take your money when you check out.
I am a writer who gets most of his books (usually 50 years old at least) from abebooks.com and ebay. Occasionally I find I need to go to one of these “big-box” bookstores (hey, if they are going to insult Walmart and Target who are actually helping the middle class by providing affordable goods, we can use their nasty nickname against them) and 90% of the clerks who have taken my money have the attitude, “I work in a bookstore, ergo, I’m a brilliant writer/literary critic.”
Take the metal rod out of your nose, you’re just a cashier.
I like Abebooks as well. Also, Alibris.
One thing that would make ebooks shine would involve the copyright-holders of long-out-of-print books making them available as ebooks. It takes a large anticipated market to justify a print run. A book can justify its electronic existence on a server disk with just one purchase per year.
Went into our local books-a-million which took over the Borders store.
Pretty much the same format EXCEPT the workers were clean and not artsy and there were as many if not more conservatve books as other kinds.
First time that I walked into the building that I didnt become frustrated.