This isn't directed towards you so don't take it that way.

Every thread people come in saying that they work at some magical bookstore but I have yet to find one. All the book stores around me that are still open are at least 50% more than online, that includes B&N. So either people are on a load of shit, or never leave the mass market section. The difference between hardcovers and trade paper backs are pretty drastic.

The stores that closed around me were in shambles anyways. Dirty. Piles of used books everywhere. Unorganized. Etc. people fail to ever mention this about book stores that shut down, a lot of them were filthy. Were there good stores that shut down? Sure of course there was but it had more to do with their inability to adapt than Amazon and eBay and the Internet than Amazon selling at a lower price. There was a big AMA from a bookstore owner who said in one of his replies that looking back he could have done things differently. A lot of bookstore also sell online also.

People blame Amazon and fail to acknowledge that if it wasn't Amazon it would have been a different company and we would be blaming a different company for book stores.

It is very much blind hate from 90% or people on the Internet, do some people, such as yourself who works at a small bookstore have legitimate reasons to not like Amazon? Sure. But most people just blindly blame Amazon for things with no understanding how things work. Half of this sub still blames Amazon for ebook prices ignoring the fact that it is set by the publisher and completely out of their control, or that Apple had more to do with it than Amazon ever did.

I personally would love to go to a bookstore and not get ripped off for new books that just came out and not have to worry about damage from shipping.