Comments on: Fuck Amazon — Buy local!

By: Siel

Siel — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:53:18 +0000

Sadly, since I wrote this post, Dutton’s has gone out of business and indie bookstores are getting harder and harder to find.

I do use Amazon occasionally — but to buy used books, or other goods that are unduly difficult to find locally. The books I tend to buy are also rather obscure and aren’t available even at local Barnes & Nobles stores, let alone indie stores. For those, I try to order directly from the presses.

By: Troy

Troy — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:35:51 +0000

In my city, Amazon.com has driven all of the small bookstores out of business. I have fond memories of the smaller independent bookstores and the types of content that they used to have that the bigger places do not have. I have a personal vedetta with Amazon.com. That’s why I created an online directory of alternatives to Amazon.com called http://www.bookstorelistings.com.

By: bob williams

bob williams — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:21:04 +0000

I have long been in the battle for the Indys. My main gripe is (Riggio said, “The progress I brought to bookselling was to treat books like any other commodity.”)that the chains make no distinction between books save saleability and margin. According to Reluctant Capitalists, a recent book about booksellers, B&N threatened publishers that if they didn’t cooperate on margins, B&N would boycott their titles!
I would love to send you samples of what I do. My students said to say, “For the first time in the history of reading, you can mark your exact line, find it fast and never hurt the book.”
Give me an address for freebies or look in Duttons or the great Vromann’s.

By: Roger, Gone Green

Roger, Gone Green — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

And in point of fact "relocalization" is one of the elements that helps one drive a bike more, or walk to the store more. Half of the non-auto process is knowing the local shops are there, and to make an effort to use them *first* even if you ride there in a car. The other half is to remember to walk, bike, ride (transit) to get there, maybe on a Weekend Off day. (Grin).

By shopping locally -- no matter how you get there -- you also assure the continued vitality of your area to support non-automibility in the future . . .

By: Leah

Leah — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

cheers for shopping locally! I try and do the same thing; my business goes to the local library, and then to the local bookstore.

By: Siel

Siel — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Sadly, none of these bookstores are walking distance — or even reasonable running distance — from me :( The library, however, is only a stone’s throw away :)