From: "Keri Malone" <ocicats-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: amazon and anarchism
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 21:48:55 GMT



I only shopped at Amazon once,when I actually
HAD a credit card,but I what I usually do is
find something I want from Amazon,write down
the ISBN # and order it from Walden's where
I can get a discount.
I avoid Border's like the plague,but recently
did get the complete Patty Smith book there,
only because it's the only damn store around.
The book is excellent btw.
Keri



>
>At 06:53 PM 2/9/99 +0000, mokey dokey wrote:
>
>>
>>putting for one side the ethical issues of buying from a company like
>>amazon, what do you anarchos think about online bookbuying?  cos i 
just
>>don't get the deal at all.  i mean, i love going into bookshops and 
talking
>>to the staff and the like. 
>
>
>I like to buy my books impulse-style, so online shopping is out for me.
>But then thanks to Borders buying the best independent bookstore in St.
>Louis (Library Ltd.), I now have my choice between evil corporate giant
>Borders or evil corporate giant Barnes & Noble.  There are a goodly 
number
>of independent bookstores here, but they cater primarily to the
>SF/Romance/Horror/Western crowds.  As far as I can tell, I'm in a 
lose/lose
>situation until I finally get the courage to open a radical bookstore 
myself.
>
>Cheers,
>Scott
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