pink moon gonna get you all

[tears_of_nienna]

So a new Temeraire book came out. In fact, it has been out for more than a month and I am a librarian and I didn't know this. Oh god, fail. (Okay, so maybe the rural redneck appetite for dragons-in-the-Napoleonic-era is not as large as I would have hoped

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[byslantedlight]

I go to the bookshops! I'm using them! *g* And I go for the browsing, because that's when I find new books and new interests, and sometimes re-kindle old ones, by actually seeing a physical book on a shelf, waiting for me to take it home. The incentive for me is books in my hand, and the adventure of bookshelf possibilities - I don't get the latter from online ordering.

I can't always get to a bookshop, and that's when I order online - and when I know specifically what I want, such as the next in a series - but I'm always rather sorry that I do end up doing it. I suppose twenty years ago I'd've just waited until I could get to a bookshop - we used to be forced into patience (and for the next ep in a series, too). Mind you, twenty years ago I was a city girl, so that didn't happen very often anyway! *g* But why aren't I more patient now - just because I don't have to be? I know that if bookshops aren't supported, then the bliss of browsing is going to vanish, and I'm happy to pay the same prices as I ever have for books. The bookshops have many more overheads than online shops do, and that's where the extra money goes - I don't see how they could lower prices overall without making other cuts, to staff salaries and so on...

$25 for a new publication in hardback is about what I remember the price ever to be, in $ and £ - then again, I could very rarely justify paying that for a hardback novel, even now I force myself into patience to wait for the paperback version (easier to curl up with in bed, too...), so I guess we all have our limits. I won't be reading the new Temeraire until it does come out in paperback... Why in the world don't they release the paperbacks at the same time as the hardbacks? I bet most people who buy hardbacks would buy them anyway...

Mind you, I'm a bit appalled by the Kindle price, as you said - especially since it's really a price for borrowing the book, and in theory it could be taken away from you again... if I buy a book, I want it on my shelf for good! *g* I have been wondering if Kindle book prices will creep up to virtually paper book prices, as more and more people get used to reading that way...

And finally (you've caught me in chatty-mode! *g*) - well done all those people requesting books at the library! Even when I wasn't a "fan" of anything, I wouldn't have had the patience to wait for 100 other people to read a book before I could borrow it - unless I couldn't afford to buy it at all...