"I would buy a book now and then about death and dying, " he recalls.
"If you can buy a book cheaper from somewhere else, buy it from somewhere else, " Jones says.
"Sure it's neat that I can buy a book online, " says Don St.
After all, if you buy a book to fix a problem, and it works, you don't need another book.
"When people buy a book from Amazon, they are really giving this whole new world of Internet commerce a try, " says Oppenheimer's Blodget.
The site also lets you send a Loch Ness Monster e-mail postcard, buy a book on the legend and study the X-files-like Ness Files.
Puri created a profile page that includes photos of the restaurant, reviews and a link to Amazon, where Facebookers can buy a book written by the restaurant's chef.
If you have the software and are about to buy a book from Amazon, say, a box will pop up to tell you that you could get it cheaper elsewhere.
If we stream a film on Netflix or buy a book on Amazon, those companies are leveraging huge product-attribute datasets and ratings of millions of users to help us make just the right purchase.
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If you're headed on vacation, you shouldn't have an issue loading up tons of titles onto the 2GB e-reader, but what if you decide you want to buy a book you saw someone reading on the plane?
In the same way that "people don't buy a book just to read it in the kitchen, " Sealed Media's Peter Kumik says, they like to be able to access the content they have bought on any computer.
Once you buy a book, music CD, or movie DVD in the United States, you are free to later sell it, lend it to a friend, or donate it to a library or charity without seeking permission from the copyright owner.
That means there are many more things that can be done with Web sites, beyond the more simpler things now where you can click to buy a book or click to make a hotel reservation -- many, many more things will be done when you always have the Web with you.
And then of course, there is the fact that if you buy a book in the real world, it's going to sit around making you feel guilty all the time, but now I can buy as many books as I want, and they go on my device, and I never have to think about them again.
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If I buy a baby book for my niece, should an e-commerce company assume that I have kids?
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In a nutshell, renting a textbook will cost about half of what it would cost to buy a new book.
Instead I would just buy a kindle book which I can access on a computer or phone with one purchase and when I upgrade my phone, I just uninstall the app on the old one and install it on the new one unlike apps like Skyscape.
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Why not buy your child a book for Christmas or birthday?
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For instance, a user could buy a plane ticket online and then book a hire car without having to sign on again and retype the destination.
Buy his book as a Christmas gift for one's religious friends?
The work that Sellers is doing is for a good cause, so please buy the book in the autumn for yourself or give a copy to a budding entrepreneur you know.
The minute a reader hears about a book from a friend, she can buy her own copy.
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Swipe it with your pager and send it to a pal, or press a button and buy the book.
He got an encouraging response rate -- about 1% -- from people who agreed to buy the first book at a discount.
Who, for instance, buys a digital copy of a book for their Kindle only to go out and buy a hardcover version?
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What was left when I left were the big-box bookstores and one remarkably savvy, if not altogether likable, independent that long ago started a similar buy-the-book-for-tickets policy.
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We can choose between dedicated devices that are specialized for a single task such as book reading or music, or we can buy a device that does it all.
If a card belonging to a Berliner has never been used to purchase a plane ticket or buy goods outside Germany, the system may block an attempt to book a Moscow-Tokyo flight leaving in three hours.
So, the 40-year-old Lennon will not be expecting a book of blank cheques to buy players.
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