We won't stop using e-mail or e-tickets or ATMs, or buying books online.
It's useful if you're buying books while sitting on the beach in Italy.
At age 10 he started buying books and other "low-end stuff" at garage sales and re-selling it on eBay.
The biggest obstacle to buying books online in China is not price, as in America, but a lack of availability and trust.
After I had examined several of them, I concluded that he favored buying books in batches and probably belonged to several book clubs.
Buying books and music, still the web's most popular shopping items, will not happen much in m-commerce because they are not usually time-sensitive.
Hopefully, that will also mean more people buying books, too.
People have been buying books at bookstores ever since the advent of the printing press, and we have to believe that will continue in spite the rise of the eReader.
We should preface this entire section by saying we're clearly used to the experience of buying books OTA on the Kindle or Nook and on their associated applications, so you can probably understand why we think the process of sideloading books seems so last decade.
The company said that since the debut of its U.K. Kindle store, Amazon now sells more Kindle books than hardcover books in the U.K. Since April 1, Amazon customers are buying Kindle books over hardcovers at a rate of better than 2-to-1.
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She loves Tar Heel basketball, french-press coffee, making to-do lists and buying more books than her shelves can hold.
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People are buying these books, he says.
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We started buying and selling books nine years ago when we were both working day jobs.
When it comes to buying e-books at the high end of the price scale, consumers have no trouble doing so.
Why would Amazon increase prices, when consumers were buying so many books?
They said they would share some consumer data about buying e-books.
Friends and a great climate, of course, but unexpectedly I had to leave behind a clutch of wonderful bookstores, where I would browse for hours on a Saturday afternoon, buying many more books than I ever had the time to read.
"But you can die of hope in Hollywood, " said Mr. Byrd, who then turned his attention to theater, boning up by going to the now-defunct Coliseum Books and buying every relevant text on the subject.
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Readers are buying a greater variety of books than ever, with weekly sales of 220, 000 different ones in Britain alone, according to Nielsen BookScan.
The percentage of shoppers buying clothing, toys and books also rose.
The greater selection offered by the chain stores and their strong buying power helped reduce prices of the books they sold.
But at least one source who has seen the building's books says the buyers will be buying a small amount of negative cash flow while making a long-term bet on the building's eventual profitability as the most prominent and expensive asset in midtown Manhattan.
Over 80% of Fire owners have purchased an e-book, and 58% had purchased more than three e-books within 15-60 days of buying the Fire.
For the last decade he has focused on speaking, consulting and churning out books that spread his message of senior buying power and rebirth.
But based on buying intentions, it appears that electronic readers are replacing traditional books.
But with the Mets already letting Jose Reyes walk to Miami (who blindsided him after one year by flipping him up to Toronto), buying out disappoiting outfielder Jason Bay, and looking ahead to pitcher Johan Santana coming off the books in one more year, there seems to be enough flexibilty to commit to Wright.
Buying a stake will allow oil companies to add their share of Rosneft's oil and gas to their books immediately.
Mr. McMurtry, who built his inventory by buying up the stock of secondhand bookstores and personal collections around the country, said he also has selected 100 books of special interest to him for individual auction.
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