{"id":386,"date":"2008-10-24T07:13:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T13:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jodilee.ca\/?p=386"},"modified":"2008-10-24T07:13:43","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T13:13:43","slug":"physical-vs-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Physical vs. Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michele Lee has a solid bit of common sense up at her blog<\/a><\/strong>. It seems people somewhere are debating boycotting Borders for not stocking certain titles. She suggests Amazon, or special-ordering. I agree.<\/p>\n

I have never personally dealt with Borders. I don’t think we have that up here, but we do have Chapters\/Indigo and McNally Robinson, etc. Not to mention the occasional small business bookstore… (I desperately miss our local. Desperately<\/em>.) However, they’re big-box bookers with staff that are trained to type orders into computers. Yes, that means buyers will have to speak to a human being to have the book they’re looking for special-ordered. The world won’t end, trust me.<\/p>\n

OR, as Michele points out, order it from Amazon. If you can’t for whatever reason, try one of the smaller booksellers online. Still – how hard would it be to ask a damn sales clerk to special-order it???<\/p>\n

My local was small, and I think I bought a book from the shelf maybe three times. Every other title I wanted, I had to special order – and they got each and every one in for me. Each. And. Every. One.<\/p>\n

Even the out-of-print really special order.<\/em> <\/p>\n

I believe, if I pre-pay orders I make, I can get McNally’s to mail them<\/em> out to me, since I don’t live in the city. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michele Lee has a solid bit of common sense up at her blog. It seems people somewhere are debating boycotting Borders for not stocking certain titles. She suggests Amazon, or special-ordering. I agree.
\nI have never personally dealt with Borders. I don’t think we have that up here, but we do have Chapters\/Indigo and McNally Robinson, etc. Not to mention the occasional small business bookstore… (I desperately miss our local. Desperately.) However, they’re big-box bookers with staff that are trained to type orders into computers. Yes, that means buyers will have …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[147,145,146,148],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-pondering-on-writing","category-snark","tag-amazon","tag-books","tag-booksellers","tag-special-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}