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<blockquote data-quote="Sutekh" data-source="post: 5427398" data-attributes="member: 16863">What is interesting is how the fate of Borders US affects Borders AU (I dont know if they are even connected at all). Borders UK is long dead as a test case. Ill be honest. Its been a year since I set foot in an rpg store.I buy my books online via <a href="http://www.booko.com.au" target="_blank">Booko: Compare book &amp; DVD prices in Australia with Booko</a> which sorts the books into online shops I can purcahse from (from which I target ones with free shipping). Im not afraid to say its purely a cost and numbers game for me. I have limited funds and I want to maximise what they do.Ill admit, some of these book purchase sites are putting Amazon itself to shame. I work as a Librarian, and while I like to read I dont have this desire to go down to my local bookshop and peruse.I think a lot of bookshops operate on an old model. Have you seen how many tablets capable of reading books on have come out in the past year (or will in 2011?). While I understand that the paper book will never go, financially its a cheaper way to distribute your product to the audience (printing costs, sourcing a place to get it printed etc). In a financial downturn (Which I have noticed has affected America a lot more than Australia its probably not a good time to expect tablet sales to go up, but notice that the ipad has already sold particuarly well even in this climate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sutekh, post: 5427398, member: 16863"] What is interesting is how the fate of Borders US affects Borders AU (I dont know if they are even connected at all). Borders UK is long dead as a test case. Ill be honest. Its been a year since I set foot in an rpg store.I buy my books online via [url=http://www.booko.com.au]Booko: Compare book & DVD prices in Australia with Booko[/url] which sorts the books into online shops I can purcahse from (from which I target ones with free shipping). Im not afraid to say its purely a cost and numbers game for me. I have limited funds and I want to maximise what they do. Ill admit, some of these book purchase sites are putting Amazon itself to shame. I work as a Librarian, and while I like to read I dont have this desire to go down to my local bookshop and peruse. I think a lot of bookshops operate on an old model. Have you seen how many tablets capable of reading books on have come out in the past year (or will in 2011?). While I understand that the paper book will never go, financially its a cheaper way to distribute your product to the audience (printing costs, sourcing a place to get it printed etc). In a financial downturn (Which I have noticed has affected America a lot more than Australia its probably not a good time to expect tablet sales to go up, but notice that the ipad has already sold particuarly well even in this climate. [/QUOTE]

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