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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Where do people buy new book releases from? Do you tend to price check before making a purchase?
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.
My local Waterstones, unless it’s lots more than on Amazon. Better World Books for used and out of print books.
I buy mine from Waterstones, or Amazon…and get loads of second hand ones from the markets, or World of Books.
Now I’ve got a kindle I download all new books.
Most of the big releases I buy from Asda.
Amazon as I need to use a kindle now x
Waterstones or amazon
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.
Tesco, Karin Slaughters new paperback was only £3.50 at the weekend
Kindle, Sainsbury’s and Tesco
Often Asda
no x
Always from Waterstones.I’m well known in the East Kilbride Shop as a regular purchaser of books?
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.
@Tammie Is the £5 for hardbacks or paperbacks
@Jason on the kindle and paper back. Hardback ud be happy paying 12.99
Sometimes i get them from Amazon but mostly in the supermarket to be honest
Get mine from amazon x
Amazon, I have a kindle…or 3??
Mainly buy from Asda but lately Sainsburys are a little bit cheaper so going there instead
Mainly get most of mine Asda Sainsbury’s tesco xxx
the works, asda, tesco
Asda, Tesco’s, Sainsbury’s or Waterstones and sometimes Amazon.
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.
Amazon or the works.
Mainly WH Smith.
Waterstones.
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.
Mostly online either Waterstones or Amazon. But do use local bookshop Hedgehog Bookshop here in Penrith, they will order anything.
Online or most retail shops .. also get hand me downs .
Mostly Amazon
Amazon x
Anywhere BUT amazon …
@Grace Why not Amazon?
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.
I’ve not heard of this before. I’ve reviewed books on Amazon that I’ve not bought off them
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 …
In all the years I’ve been with amazing I’ve never once not been able to review a book. Xx
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.
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.
Amazon, asda or tesco
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
WHSmith and amazon, supermarkets
Amazon x
Amazon ?
Amazon.
Sainsburys.
Library
Oops, don’t buy them by and large
Amazon usually.
Apart from occasional bargain impulse buy in Tesco, I buy all my new books from my local independent bookstore.
Order from my local library
@Sandra and me, can’t afford to buy new at the rate I read ?
No just buy wildly!
Where ever I can find them!
Asda/Sainsburys if they have them in and if not l try Amazon.
Goldsboro books and Waterstones
Tesco
Waterstones, usually, or the library.
Amazon..then the suoermarkets
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.
@Patricia good plan?
Waterstones at Leamington mainly but Also Amazon or an Authors own website
yup!
Amazon mostly, and yes, I sometimes watch a book for a few months before the price goes down
Amazon.
Yes
I did six price checks before purchasing books yesterday
From Amazon, either new or used. A few recent purchases have come from The Works.
@Maggie The Works is fab. Some charity shops near to lower their prices to compete
I try to buy from Waterstones Leeds
Surprised not many library users.
Love my library
I usually get mine from kindle. Oh and of course recommendations from here. Price check… well sometimes but mostly not
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.
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.
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!
Audible if available, then it just costs me the price of 1 credit, no matter what.
I use my library, and sometimes off amazon or eBay
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