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In a world where much is out of your control, being able to apply your particular tastes to your "vademecum" is a godsend.
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Amazon, like many of the other retailers in Best Buy now, "rent" a section of the store. So, yes, you can buy a Kindle in Best Buy now, but it's not like Best Buy really carries them on their own. It's kind of like a flea market or a glorified consignment shop. |
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Books a Million does sell ebooks.
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![]() I wonder how they do? I don't see any mention of ebooks on the home page. I take it they do not have any ereaders? |
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And for me, their ebook store is useless since the 23 items I checked all said "This item is only available to U.S. billing addresses." Even when I checked PD books, which was a nightmare in itself since there seems to be no way to search for ebooks, the message was the same. Last edited by DNSB; 05-24-2024 at 03:59 PM. |
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I've been to a Books A Million store a couple times when I lived in the Dallas area. They also run a wholesale book supplier, American Wholesale Book Company. So they're not nobodies. You're right about finding eBooks on their site. They make it very hard. And if you look at their eBook help page it looks like it was written about fifteen years ago. They still have a link to the Sony firmware update page — which tries to go the ebookstore.sony.com/downloads page. So eBooks don't seem to be a high priority for them. https://www.booksamillion.com/help/ebook-faqs.html eBooks.com, however, is pretty good. And I think they do sell books internationally. Last edited by rcentros; 05-24-2024 at 11:59 PM. |
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I compared some of the newer (2010 to date) paperback historical fiction font faces and font sizes to some of the older paperbacks I still haven't sold. The font in adult fiction books today is so tiny compared to the regular and mass market paperbacks I have from the 1980s and 1990s. I used to use my NOOK on and off, but in the last 5 years, my NOOK and other eReaders are the only way I will ever be able to read books anymore (comfortably). I have family who just stopped reading full stop because it's a hassle to read paper books comfortably without special reading glasses and a lot of light. (They don't listen to me when I sing the virtues of e-ink!) With extreme joint pain in my hands and worsening vision, I probably would've just stopped reading paper books and moved solely to audiobooks if I didn't have an eReader option. |
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