Sunday, February 20, 2011

Regrets

Even when I hadn't gone to it often, I find myself sad when a bookstore closes. I think And if you hadn't ordered from Amazon so frequently...?

Even 20% off discounts don't quite make up for the transient sense of culpability.

2 comments:

genderist said...

I'm with you. But it's so nice to go on amazon and find what you're looking for from the comfort of your couch.

Cerulean Bill said...

I recall when Amazon started, and when they started to branch out from just books. I thought at the time 'Well, that won't go anywhere.' Wonder if Borders and the others thought the same thing?

We're looking at a Kindle (and other ereaders). We'll likely get it. But I've heard two things I've heard about it that I don't like, and both speak to the Amazon style -- that Amazon effectively controls what you put on there; they can and have deleted something the buy has legally acquired. And that if you go through it to the Amazon Kindle store, the default click-action is to say Yes to 'do you want to buy this item' -- with no 'are you sure'. You twitch, you bought it.

I want to say that both are too manipulative for me, too controlling...But Amazon makes it so damn easy to buy....