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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Brick and mortar retailers are getting eaten alive by online sellers. People won't spend 10.99 for a book at a Chapters store if they can get it from Amazon for 8.99.
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Just a quick comment:
There often isn't much of a price difference between brick and mortar stores and online stores when it comes to books. (Especially if you don't happen to live in an English speaking country but want to buy Angloamerican fiction.) Buying books from Amazon is just WAY more convenient. Amazon is much better at recommending interesting books than any bookstore I've ever visited. Plus the average brick and mortar store has at best a 50/50 chance of actually having the book I want when I want it, so why even bother going there (which is at best a 30 minute trip) when an online store can deliver it to me. (And it'll take about 1 minute of effort in my part.)
I won't miss looking for books in bookstores one bit. I've never seen one with really good staff anyway. Just like I don't really miss record stores. Most of them had crappy elitist staff that at the end of the day didn't know that much more about the stuff they sold than I did.