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Where do people buy new book releases from? Do you tend to price check before making a purchase?

Where do people buy new book releases from? Do you tend to price check before making a purchase?

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Maureen

I buy all my books from Amazon unless I have a giftcard. My local new book place is w.h.smith and tends to be more expensive.

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Carmen

My local Waterstones, unless it’s lots more than on Amazon. Better World Books for used and out of print books.

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Suzanne

I buy mine from Waterstones, or Amazon…and get loads of second hand ones from the markets, or World of Books.

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Jennifer

Now I’ve got a kindle I download all new books.

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JasonQuestion author

Most of the big releases I buy from Asda.

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Mhairi

Amazon as I need to use a kindle now x

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Michael

Waterstones or amazon

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Neil

I don’t tend to buy anything at all the library is a much better option but if I do occasionally buy I avoid organisations that set up their business model so as to avoid paying UK corporation tax.

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Gill

Tesco, Karin Slaughters new paperback was only £3.50 at the weekend

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Julie

Kindle, Sainsbury’s and Tesco

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Chris

Often Asda

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Linda

no x

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Helen

Always from Waterstones.I’m well known in the East Kilbride Shop as a regular purchaser of books?

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Tammie

All from Amazon be lost with out my kindle.
Depending on the author depends on the price. I usually wont pay more than £5.00 unless it’s a very good book.

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JasonQuestion author

@Tammie Is the £5 for hardbacks or paperbacks

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Tammie

@Jason on the kindle and paper back. Hardback ud be happy paying 12.99

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Kelly

Sometimes i get them from Amazon but mostly in the supermarket to be honest

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Shona

Get mine from amazon x

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Sharon

Amazon, I have a kindle…or 3??

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Michelle

Mainly buy from Asda but lately Sainsburys are a little bit cheaper so going there instead

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Mel

Mainly get most of mine Asda Sainsbury’s tesco xxx

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Kat

the works, asda, tesco

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Debra

Asda, Tesco’s, Sainsbury’s or Waterstones and sometimes Amazon.

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Eileen

I shop around; Amazon, Tesco, Sainsbury’s but if I want a first edition I’ll preorder, which one author said really helps them in advance of a book release.

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Debbie

Amazon or the works.

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Doreen

Mainly WH Smith.

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David

Waterstones.

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Paul

Almost all the new books I buy are from No Alibis, an indie bookshop in Belfast that specialises in crime fiction. Has to be one of the best bookshops in the UK. I may occasionally find books elsewhere; and I buy a lot of secondhand books in charity shops.

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Diane

Mostly online either Waterstones or Amazon. But do use local bookshop Hedgehog Bookshop here in Penrith, they will order anything.

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Cheryl

Online or most retail shops .. also get hand me downs .

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Sheila

Mostly Amazon

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Karen

Amazon x

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Grace

Anywhere BUT amazon …

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JasonQuestion author

@Grace Why not Amazon?

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Grace

Because of how they pick and choose those who can review, @Jason. No reason given, no explanation .. just like a child throwing toys out of a pram – so I refuse to spend another penny with them.

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JasonQuestion author

I’ve not heard of this before. I’ve reviewed books on Amazon that I’ve not bought off them

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Grace

I’m astonished you haven’t heard. One day you can review, the next you can’t. They don’t tell you why. Their mantra is ‘you have broken our guidelines’. I’m not the only person to have gone through their guidelines with a fine tooth comb. You can appeal, but again it’s a stonewall answer which they refuse to back up or explain. It has happened to a LOT of reviewers and bloggers – and they remove all your other reviews too. Which is why authors can lose several reviews in one fell swoop …

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Tammie

In all the years I’ve been with amazing I’ve never once not been able to review a book. Xx

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Grace

I was the same @Tammie – then I couldn’t! They didn’t even let me know – and I’m well aware of many, many others.

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Jean

Amazon usually. I’m in the US though and sometimes I have to order from Book Depository. I had to order Hunting Evil by Chris Carter from Book Depository because it’s not being released over here.

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Naomi

Amazon, asda or tesco

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Steven

My local book stores Vroman’s, Skylight, Book Soup, Apple, and Amazon …lately been ordering some directly from the U.K. because they’re not released in the States

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Ami-May

WHSmith and amazon, supermarkets

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Karen

Amazon x

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Debby

Amazon ?

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Maggie

Amazon.

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Norma

Sainsburys.

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Elaine

Library

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Elaine

Oops, don’t buy them by and large

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Julie

Amazon usually.

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Martin

Apart from occasional bargain impulse buy in Tesco, I buy all my new books from my local independent bookstore.

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Sandra

Order from my local library

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Jilly

@Sandra and me, can’t afford to buy new at the rate I read ?

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Lindsay

No just buy wildly!

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Val

Where ever I can find them!

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Linda

Asda/Sainsburys if they have them in and if not l try Amazon.

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Shaun

Goldsboro books and Waterstones

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Janice

Tesco

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Nikki

Waterstones, usually, or the library.

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Irene

Amazon..then the suoermarkets

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Patricia

BookDepository or I’ll wait awhile and get them cheap at Abebooks. Occasionally on Amazon. Also, I can order from my library with a program called zipbooks. If they dont have a copy and its on Amazon, they will purchase it for me.

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Lesley

@Patricia good plan?

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Vaughan

Waterstones at Leamington mainly but Also Amazon or an Authors own website

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Jane

yup!

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Lidiia

Amazon mostly, and yes, I sometimes watch a book for a few months before the price goes down

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Pat

Amazon.

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Sylvia

Yes

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JasonQuestion author

I did six price checks before purchasing books yesterday

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Maggie

From Amazon, either new or used. A few recent purchases have come from The Works.

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Viv

@Maggie The Works is fab. Some charity shops near to lower their prices to compete

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David

I try to buy from Waterstones Leeds

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Sandra

Surprised not many library users.

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Kat

Love my library

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Tee

I usually get mine from kindle. Oh and of course recommendations from here. Price check… well sometimes but mostly not

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Chris

I buy mine from Kindle and I buy a lot. However, if it’s a trad publisher who has overpriced the ebook, making it more expensive than the paperback or hardback, then I go to the library even though I prefer to buy. 🙂

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Stephanie

Most of my books come from Asda as it’s very local to me. I’ve also bought from charity shops and previously my local library but too many at home to read so not been for awhile.

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Rowena

I accidentally bought a paperback from WH Smiths this week. I tend not to give WHS too much of my custom* but when I saw ‘Unnatural Causes’ – the memoir of a forensic pathologist, I was incapable of leavign the shop without it.
Turns out to be excellent, too; a real behind-the-scenes insight into the real work of the men in white suits.
If your tastes stretch beyond fiction and into a bit of real-life, then this is recommended.

*because of their dominance in the news / magazine business, which strangled that market years before Amazon had even started!

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Sharon

Audible if available, then it just costs me the price of 1 credit, no matter what.

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Kat

I use my library, and sometimes off amazon or eBay

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Vicsta

Yeah always check prices but mainly amazon but to be honest I generally buy used books xx I have noticed recently the last 3 used books I purchased have not even been read which is great as the are new books for just over £2 xx happy days

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