Where to buy next book?

This is sort of a poll, I suppose.

I have been thinking of where to buy the next book. When Amazon delivered the same day as release, it was convenient to pre-purchase through Amazon and have it delivered.

Since then, I have lost a couple of the bookstores in the area, and so now prefer to try to purchase at the remaining bookstores, even though they are a bit of a drive away. I can support the semi-local bookstores, get the purchase the day of release (which no longer happens with Amazon), and can browse for other interesting things.

How do you feel? Where are you going to buy?

Hildum wrote:This is sort of a poll, I suppose.

I have been thinking of where to buy the next book. When Amazon delivered the same day as release, it was convenient to pre-purchase through Amazon and have it delivered.

Since then, I have lost a couple of the bookstores in the area, and so now prefer to try to purchase at the remaining bookstores, even though they are a bit of a drive away. I can support the semi-local bookstores, get the purchase the day of release (which no longer happens with Amazon), and can browse for other interesting things.

How do you feel? Where are you going to buy?

I pre-ordered both ATSoT and SoV from Indigo Chapters here in Canada. I got Road to Hell a couple of days before the published date and hope that the same will hold true for these two.

I usually buy from Barnes and Nobel. These titles are not strict on sale and I usually manage to get the book between 4-7 days before the release date.

I don't understand this desire to get the book on the release date or before, if possible. It's going to be a year or more before the next book in the series comes out; we'll all read, and reread, and reread our newly purchased book, and still end up crawling up the wall waiting for the next one. It's not like we have to get it out of the way so we can go buy the next one ASAP. The sooner we read this book, the sooner we start endlessly posting regarding speculation and trivia. What's the rush?
Philip Stanley

Philip Stanley wrote:...The sooner we read this book, the sooner we start endlessly posting regarding speculation and trivia. What's the rush?
Philip Stanley

If you read it before anyone else, you get to post spoilers instead of read them.

Hildum wrote:This is sort of a poll, I suppose.

I have been thinking of where to buy the next book. When Amazon delivered the same day as release, it was convenient to pre-purchase through Amazon and have it delivered.

Since then, I have lost a couple of the bookstores in the area, and so now prefer to try to purchase at the remaining bookstores, even though they are a bit of a drive away. I can support the semi-local bookstores, get the purchase the day of release (which no longer happens with Amazon), and can browse for other interesting things.

How do you feel? Where are you going to buy?

I always support my local book store Mysterious Galaxy! Great book store that has authors come in to do book signings and read from their latest book... I buy nothing on-line if I can help it (call me a Luddite if you must)but I like being able to go to the store pick up a book or brouse through the stacks.

A pox on on-line purchases.

To my slight regret, I usually buy e-books now, although I avoid Amazon whenever possible. I prefer hard-copy, but I urgently need to reduce the number of actual books in the house, having moved from a big house to a considerably smaller one. I don't have a precise count on the number of books in the house, but I estimate it's now down to roughly 2000.

I'm slowly replacing my hard copies by e-books, but it's a costly process, and a goodly number don't have e-versions. Also, it's infuriating when just one book in a series is not available in electronic format!
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Peter2 wrote:To my slight regret, I usually buy e-books now, although I avoid Amazon whenever possible. I prefer hard-copy, but I urgently need to reduce the number of actual books in the house, having moved from a big house to a considerably smaller one. I don't have a precise count on the number of books in the house, but I estimate it's now down to roughly 2000.

I'm slowly replacing my hard copies by e-books, but it's a costly process, and a goodly number don't have e-versions. Also, it's infuriating when just one book in a series is not available in electronic format!
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Are you sure it's about 2000 books? Because that's actually a staggering amount. I used to think for years I had thousands of books, and then I actually took the time to count them all, and it turned out I only had about 1100.

I am trying out a new store after my favourite, first closed its physical store and then later closed it's online store.

I saw on the The Royal Manticoran Navy: The Official Honor Harrington Fan Association facebook site, that there was an associated web site that sells all things David Weber, included personally signed copies of the lates books.

Great if you are into that sort of thing, which I am, but on the downside, postage is not free.

Weber Universal Outfitters

http://www.weberuniversaloutfitters.com ... page=index

its worth checking out

israelsmith wrote:

Peter2 wrote:To my slight regret, I usually buy e-books now, although I avoid Amazon whenever possible. I prefer hard-copy, but I urgently need to reduce the number of actual books in the house, having moved from a big house to a considerably smaller one. I don't have a precise count on the number of books in the house, but I estimate it's now down to roughly 2000.

I'm slowly replacing my hard copies by e-books, but it's a costly process, and a goodly number don't have e-versions. Also, it's infuriating when just one book in a series is not available in electronic format!
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Are you sure it's about 2000 books? Because that's actually a staggering amount. I used to think for years I had thousands of books, and then I actually took the time to count them all, and it turned out I only had about 1100.

Yes, I'm sure. I have just over 140 ft. of book shelving, of which about 5 ft is empty. I started collecting books (paperbacks – I couldn't afford hard-backs) in 1964, when your average novel contained 180–250 pages, and was roughly ½" thick. Book thickness started to rise in the late 1970's to early 1980's (Niven and Pournelle's Oath of Fealty (published in pb in 1982) is just over ¾" thick. Present-day ones are up to 2" thick, but as I say, I get e-versions now and I don't have all that many modern pb's. Call the average thickness ¾". So I make that 135 x 12 x 1.333 = 2160 books – not allowing for the ones stuffed away in cupboards or piled on top of bookcases . . .
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