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But at what price? I'm not sure I'm ready to support my independent bookseller charging me $30 more for a book, plus tax, than Amazon does.

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"Or do you want to buy a book and buy into the promise of continued service from your local bookseller? That will be $30 in addition to the purchase of a book."

The "continued service from my local bookseller" is just not very valuable to me. Not nearly as valuable as the difference in prices most of the time.

For several months now, I've been buying 90% of my new graphic novels via Amazon. I started doing that when I noticed that a book that retailed for $99, Amazon was offering for about $67 -- *more* than a $30 difference. And free shipping, to boot.

Amazon is, in about 1% of cases, more expensive than my local stores. But the average discount is more like 15%, and it sometimes goes over 40%. My book habit is still large enough that that makes a significant difference in my cash flow.