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.
>
>
>
> --- 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
>
> 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:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 19 Dec 2009 EST