Must read!!

So as most of you know, I am not the biggest fan of the Evil Empire of Amazon. (And this is, of course, an understatement. I am, in fact, not a fan at all, let alone just not the biggest one.) Recently, they have been trying to strong arm Hachette (a publishing office) into accepting their terms of sale. Amazon is refusing to sell these books in rather childish ways, such as having the book up but removing the BUY button, or even better, having an automatic redirect to a DIFFERENT book (Both actions bring back childish remembrance of saying "look but don't touch" and "Are you SURE you want a cookie when you could have this CARROT!"). The unfortunate point being, that if Amazon wins, they will be the ONLY ones who get any sort of money. Where as the book binders, publishing house, printers, and AUTHORS have to fight over what's left. Think of it like someone taking your cookies, saying they will return with adequate compensation for the cookies (this person is also carrying around a thesaurus), and the eating them all. Followed by the only compensation you receive was that they assure you, the cookies were REALLY good.

Now this article (which I am in the process of figuring out how to link it :/ ) is a great answer to the AMAZON question: "Where do we get books if not from online O_O?"

Well, read this article, and you'll have an answer.

Also, sorry for the rant... Really don't like amazon. BOOK STORES FOR LIFE!

Also Happy Fathers Day :)


LINK (haha! figured it out):
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/how-to-shop-in-a-bookstore?%3Fsrc=rss