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By: ryan field

ryan field — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:11:00 +0000

Up until recently, I bought books regularly. But I just ordered an e-reader so I’ll probably be buying e-books from now on.

By: Katrina Stonoff

Katrina Stonoff — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:51:00 +0000

Four or five years ago, I decided that if I was going to write books and expect people to buy them, I had to support my fellow writers.

So I buy almost all my books (including the books I give away on my blog) at full retail from my local, independent bookseller. And I buy them when I want them, without regard to hardback versus paperback status.

It turned out to benefit me. I've become good friends with my local bookseller. I can email him, and he'll ship books around the world for me, knowing I'll pay for them the next time I come in. He's come to know my taste and often recommends books I might not have found on my own. He introduces me to other booklovers, wonderful people whom I adore. And when I eventually have a novel to sell, I know he'll be hand-selling it to every person who comes through the door.

But I worry about this too. Think about sites like Paperback Swap (which isn't just paperbacks), where you can ask for specific books and get them for the cost of shipping a book you no longer want. A lot of the book fanatics that follow my blog get most of their books from sites like that.

I'm not implying any judgment. I know a LOT of my readers could never afford their two-a-day habit at full retail, and I'm just glad they read. And books have always been recycled.

But I do wonder/worry about it.

By: Shelli

Shelli — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:27:00 +0000

ive bought them at consignment shops – agh (bought inkheart for 2$ hardcover too – sorry Cornelia

By: Irish B

Irish B — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:10:00 +0000

I like buying books. I'm also a movie fanatic, but I buy far more books than I ever would a DVD.

My favorite form is hard-back, so when I go to the local bookstore, I'm always looking for fresh, new hard-backs. I shun paperbacks because they just don't hold up as well, nor do they look as good on a book shelf as a hardback does.

I, like anyone, love buying discounted books, but my latest craze is buying e-books. Now that may sound strange coming from a person who professes to love hard-back books. I love that they are easy to buy, and I can read them immediately and most anywhere without actually carring them around.

Now, it was quite some time ago when you were an editorial assistant, how do you think the ability to purchase e-books at that time would have affected you?

By: Mary Witzl

Mary Witzl — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:48:00 +0000

I buy new books, but not if I can find them used first. And I reread books I love again and again. I figure if people can watch the same movie over and over, I can reread books. It’s a great practice when you live in a country where books in English aren’t easy to find — or cheap. After a year or so, even a book you’ve read and loved can be reread and enjoyed.

By: joelle

joelle — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:18:00 +0000

This is interesting because I was just writing about this very thing in my journal. I rarely buy any books and I feel a bit bad about that. It’s not by choice, but because I don’t have the money. It’s not like I eat out all the time or shop or anything and can cut corners to allow book money. My husband and I have chosen to live close to the bone so that I can write full time. While my wonderful agent (Hi, Michael!) has sold my first book, it will be two or three more sales before I can start buying books. In the meantime I am awash with ARCs from a friend who works for Penguin Canada, and I have a very good library where I live too. I was just looking at 50 ARCs and thinking, “I’ll never get through these before she brings me more!”. That’s a very good problem to have! I think my other problem with buying books is that I really hate clutter, so then I’m faced with what to do with the books after I’ve read them and it kills me to just donate a $17 book, even though I know it’s a very good thing to do! The library here will take new hardcovers and put them into circulation, which makes me happier than just giving them to the library book sale (I can’t trade them to used bookstores because then I’ll end up with more books!). I think that once I am a bit more flush, I will shop at the local indie bookstore and arrange to give away the books afterward to the library or the high school. In the meantime, all I can really do is support the library and blog like crazy about the books I love and hope that other people will buy them.

By: Janet

Janet — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:25:00 +0000

I’m buying more books. It’s always been a weakness but it’s getting worse since I’ve been actively writing. And I often buy books for gifts.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:37:00 +0000

Mea Culpa. I rarely buy ‘new’ books unless I have a discount coupon or they are discounted because they are on the bestseller list. typically I haunt used bookstores and/or purchase used books through Amazon. So much for putting money directly into the coffers of authors and publishers.

By: Dawn Maria

Dawn Maria — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:20:00 +0000

I water my book thirst at every trough available- Barnes &Noble, Amazon, the used bookstore and the library. I prefer purchasing (it's the hunter in me) but coming home from the library with two dozen volumes for free is equally rewarding.

In fact, if I worked on my novel with the same intensity as I shop for books...