Where do you buy Books?

[BrentMc]

I always look for a good deal on everything I buy. I used to buy Star Trek books at a discount at WalMart. They stopped carrying them in-store. I have checked out their online selection and they offer the discount plus free shipping to the store. I live withing walking distance, so this is great for me.
It seems the latest books are at a higher price, and not available for free shipping to the store right away, but I am behind anyway. Today I just ordered MU: Rise Like Lions, TOS: The Rings of Time, DTI: Watching the clock, TOS: That which Divides. I like the discount and free shipping to the store. I also like that I can pay with paypal. Plus they will send me a text message when it is available.
Where do you like to buy books?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Kindle format only.

 

[BruntFCA]

Local store called Black and Read. Though if I want a specific book I will usually just hit up Amazon.

 

[Julio Angel Ortiz]

Barnes and Noble eBook store, sometimes Kobo Books if I can get a good deal with a coupon. I strip the DRM from my books anyway so I like to be able to buy from any store and convert them to ePUB using Calibre.

 

[CaptainDonovin]

Now that Borders has had its final chapter & Barnes & Noble can be hit or miss Trek book wise I've gone kindle now. I will hit B&N if I'm near one while out with my wife & want to avoid her store & brouse the bargin books. One habit I have devoloped now is reading more than one book at a time, so easy to do now that the books are just files now to pull up. Picking up a dead tree book wasn't so much hard as now I don't have books here & there waiting to be read.

 

[JD]

I'm trying to go 100% digital with my Nook and Comixology, but for the occasional stuff I can't get that way I get it from my local bricks and mortar Barnes & Noble.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Usually Barnes and Noble...the closest one if just a 10 minute drive away (in fact it's the only one convienent bookstore left near where I live) and Amazon.com occassionally.

 

[Lt. Brannigan]

My local used bookstores (Don't have any new bookstores) carry very little in the way of Trek so I usually just hit up Amazon.

 

[rfmcdpei]

I always look for a good deal on everything I buy. I used to buy Star Trek books at a discount at WalMart. They stopped carrying them in-store. I have checked out their online selection and they offer the discount plus free shipping to the store. I live withing walking distance, so this is great for me.
It seems the latest books are at a higher price, and not available for free shipping to the store right away, but I am behind anyway. Today I just ordered MU: Rise Like Lions, TOS: The Rings of Time, DTI: Watching the clock, TOS: That which Divides. I like the discount and free shipping to the store. I also like that I can pay with paypal. Plus they will send me a text message when it is available.
Where do you like to buy books?

I buy my books at work (good selection, employee discount) and older books at various used bookstores around downtown Toronto.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Amazon, either new (pre-order anything you like the sound of EARLY, for a big discount!) or used, and eBay. And various charity shops.

 

[C. Cole-Chakotay]

Amazon for new and used books.

 

[zarkon]

amazon.co.uk
bookdepository.co.uk
abebooks.co.uk
Forbidden planet(retail)

 

[Fer]

I used to always get mine at my local Barnes & Noble, but now I get them from Kobo for my e-reader. The e-reader gives me a lot of problems though, so I'm hoping to switch to a tablet in the next year, which will let me start getting the Nook and Kindle versions.

 

[RAMA]

Amazon mainly. There were no large bookstores for 75 miles in my area till recently, when a Bam opened up to replace the last Borders to close.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Galaxy Bookshop, in Sydney's CBD, Down Under. The shop is in its fifth location since the mid 70s. Here's what it looked like in the 80s, when I first began to frequent it:


Galaxy Bookshop, 1983 by Therin of Andor, on Flickr


Captain Therin beams down by Therin of Andor, on Flickr


Captain Therin's captioned alter ego by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

 

[2of1million]

I buy e-books from Kobo since I have a Kobo e-reader.

 

[Patrick O'Brien]

Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and I get used books from AbeBooks.com

 

[BrentMc]

I used to always get mine at my local Barnes & Noble, but now I get them from Kobo for my e-reader. The e-reader gives me a lot of problems though, so I'm hoping to switch to a tablet in the next year, which will let me start getting the Nook and Kindle versions.

I have an e-ink nook that I got mainly for free eBooks and library books. The thing I don't like about tablets for reading is that they are LCD. The reason I got the nook is so that I don't stare into a lighted screen.

I am surprised how many people are buying their ST novels as eBooks. I like my Nook, but I don't feel you get a good deal on eBooks. They had that pricing scandal in the news recently. You can never buy a used eBook, or sell your old ones can you? I have some New Frontier books that came on a CD with one of the Hardbacks, so I can try reading some ST on my Nook.

 

[Reanok]

I buy My books at Barnes&Noble and Used book stores I just found Collision Course and an Enterprise novel yesterday. I also buy From Amazon.com If I can't find a certain novel written by one of my favorite authors it's the only way I can buy the books I want to read.

 

[RandyS]

I used to get them from two Borders locations, both of which closed last year, and on occasion from two Barnes & Noble stores (but not often since I no longer drive. My girlfriend will drive me if I ask her to though). Now, for the most part, I get them from Amazon.