Since the epic flop that was Amazon’s behavior during #amazonfail, and in the weeks following, I haven’t linked to Amazon.com for sales links, using IndieBound instead. Some readers have emailed me privately to say that while they appreciate the change of linkage, their local Indie bookstore has not been friendly to them as romance readers in the least, and many shared encounters wherein their inquiries for anything mass market were met with derision and outright scorn.
Nice.
Others have emailed me to say that they still shop at Amazon and would welcome a link to support the hot pink palace of Bitchery. One dude said outright, “Everyone still shops there, even if they say they don’t.” Heh. I don’t know about that, but who knows?
So: a poll. I’m not making decisions based on the poll results. This is merely my own curiosity. I’m not inspecting results, and you can use whatever crazy-mo email address you want, so it’s not like I’m going to out you or something. I’m simply nosy: do you still shop at Amazon?
[ETA: Yes, this entry was up yesterday, and I took it down because the freaking poll software stopped working and I can’t figure it out – so it’s anonymous comment time – whee! Make sure you’re not logged in already via cookie (mmm cookie) if you want to be incognito.
ETA: Hooray for Esosoft, whose support staff is always on and populated by people with PhDs in PhP. Thanks for fixing the poll, Esosoft!]
Altho I occassionally buy from Powells, their selection is much more limited, prices are higher and it takes them forever to ship stuff. Plus it comes by US mail and that delivery person leaves my boxes in very strange places that I sometimes can’t even find. UPS and Fedex never do that, which matters when you live somewhere where its either freezing cold, snowing or raining most of the year.
I buy my books from Book Depository now. They are fast and reliable, and they don’t load the price of the book with postage and handling costs.
The Book Depository seem comparable to Amazon in prices, and they do free delivery worldwide. I haven’t come across another bookseller which does that. that was really good. jordan II kicks
I used to buy with Amazon, then I moved to just buying used books via Amazon so they’d still get a bit of a commission.