I use Amazon (strictly speaking, I use Amazon Marketplace for nearly all of my Amazon-oriented purchases, so IIRC most of my money is going to one of the smaller guys).
I would much rather go to my friendly neighborhood indie bookstore--if I had one, but I don't. The two closest brick-and-mortar bookstores to me are a Borders and a Barnes and Noble, which doesn't seem like much of an improvement, frankly.
I still buy most of my CDs from a used-and-rare classical record store near Union Square, but schlepping home a bag of CDs is a whole lot easier than schlepping a bag of books from the Strand (and, frankly, I'm just not that crazy about the Strand: organization-wise, it's like the Library of Alexandria after it was sacked).
If I still lived near Chicago, I would do all my bookbuying in Hyde Park--if that's any consolation :-)
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Date: 2010-05-07 06:28 pm (UTC)I would much rather go to my friendly neighborhood indie bookstore--if I had one, but I don't. The two closest brick-and-mortar bookstores to me are a Borders and a Barnes and Noble, which doesn't seem like much of an improvement, frankly.
I still buy most of my CDs from a used-and-rare classical record store near Union Square, but schlepping home a bag of CDs is a whole lot easier than schlepping a bag of books from the Strand (and, frankly, I'm just not that crazy about the Strand: organization-wise, it's like the Library of Alexandria after it was sacked).
If I still lived near Chicago, I would do all my bookbuying in Hyde Park--if that's any consolation :-)