Re: RARA-AVIS: e-books/e-readers

From: Joy Matkowski (jmatkowski1@comcast.net)
Date: 19 Dec 2009

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    Hearing about books---Al was amazing a couple of years ago on Brit noir; just don't say you're putting up a Scotch pine Christmas tree---and then buying them online.
        Not e-books. I haven't had anything to do with e-books. I can't read anything long on the monitor (maybe it's too much like work!), and I'm too cheap to pay a couple of hundred bucks for a reading machine that will be obsolete by the time I'm comfortable with it. Joy

    sonny wrote:
    > anthony and joy,
    >
    > are you talking about finding out about 'meat' (as opposed to 'e') books online and buyin them online or are talking about e-books?
    >
    > i certainly agree that the internet has been awesome for communciation, for finding out about books i never knew about or more about ones i hear of, and for finding copies of them for sale.
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    > --- On Sat, 12/19/09, Joy Matkowski <jmatkowski1@comcast.net> wrote:
    >
    > From: Joy Matkowski <jmatkowski1@comcast.net>
    > Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: e-books/e-readers
    > To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
    > Date: Saturday, December 19, 2009, 12:12 PM
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    > I agree entirely. I haven't ever been in a bookstore where I've been
    > hand-sold anything I might want. I can recall being recommended whatever
    > best-seller is on display, "literary fiction," and, because I'm female,
    > a new line of romances.
    > Joy
    >
    > Anthony Dauer wrote:
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    >> I have discovered way more authors online than I have ever discovered
    >> in a bookstore. There's no search engine in a bookstore. Unless I get
    >> lucky and the book is either on table with an eye catching cover, the
    >> likelihood of finding something on the shelves that I'm looking for is
    >> difficult enough. Through Amazon.com and its multi-national,
    >> English-based online stores I have read authors that are not yet
    >> available in the US. New authors can also get themselves on the
    >> shelves at Amazon.com a lot easier than they can get onto the limited
    >> brink-and-mortar selves that are even more sensitive to what books
    >> they stock as the competition grows. One of the Borders here in DC
    >> actually down-sized its spaces not long ago.
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