It?s not just that bookstores are difficult to use. They?re economically inefficient, too. Rent, utilities, and a brigade of book-reading workers aren?t cheap, so the only way for bookstores to stay afloat is to sell items at a huge markup. A few times a year, my wife?an unreformed local-bookstore cultist?drags me into one of our supposedly sacrosanct neighborhood booksellers, and I?m always astonished by how much they want me to pay for books. At many local stores, most titles?even new releases?usually go for list price, which means $35 for hardcovers and $9 to $15 for paperbacks. That?s not slightly more than Amazon charges?at Amazon, you can usually save a staggering 30 to 50 percent. In other words, for the price you?d pay for one book at your indie, you could buy two.
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