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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyeshet" data-source="post: 2994838" data-attributes="member: 18363">There are five stores within reasonable driving distance of where I live where one could expect to purchase rpg books. Two have, over the last five/six years focused more and more on cards and comics - to the extent that you would have to order the book through them (which I could do myself). The next two are a Barnes and Noble and a Borderlines that happen to be across the street from each other. Between the two of them they have the more common rpg books. Rarer ones would - again - have to be ordered through them. (A nice Waldenbooks that used to be near where the Borderlines now is had a much better selection, actually, but it went under a few years after the Barnes and Noble moved in across the street. Now, a year after Waldenbooks folded, a Borderlines has moved in. After one year both stores are still there, but I wonder if that will still be true a couple more years from now.)The last has a good selection, but it is the furthest from me (about 10-11 miles) and it never places any rpg books on sale. Minatures, dice, board games, and sometimes even anime, but never the rpg books. Otherwise I have Amazon.com, ENWorld.org, and DriveThruRPG.com for my gaming book needs. Sometimes they require printing after the fact (in the case of pdfs that are not available in print), but these are the core three I use for any book not likely to be found at Barnes and Noble or Borderlines (where I would get the card member discount). Now, five-ten years ago, there were three/four stores nearby other than the online stores or the two massive stores that had rpg books, but one went out of business, two all but dropped rpg books, and the other is on the edge of my radar considering gas prices these days - especially with the larger stores not quite half that distance away and online options available. So, after saying all this, if Amazon.com stopped carrying rpg books I would focus more on B/N and Borderlines for printed books. If those two also stopped carrying rpg books, I'd focus more on pdfs from ENworld.org and DriveThruRPG - and would print a single copy if necessary. Ebay is also an option, of course, but I have not quite gotten into the habit of using it all that often. Perhaps I should check it out more. If printing pdf books or buying off Ebay became too expensive I would simply buy less - likely far less, if it were that expensive. I will not pay full (printed book) price for rpg books these days. I have actually cut back a bit on buying fantasy / sci-fi books for pleasure reading in part because of the price - unless I can get them from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Borderlines of course (as the former has good sales, while I have a couple cards that grant a discount at the latter two).</blockquote>

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