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don't know if you have Redbox over there but here that is what we use. Stays pretty current has a good selection most days and is only a little over $1US per night. plenty of kiosks around to go to.
Beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder
Be careful which toes you step on today, they might be connected to the foot that kicks your butt tomorrow.
You can't scare me, I have children.
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Soon all major big-box book stores will also bite the bullet.
Nihil obstat
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And sadly, that will be a shame when it happens. Amazon is nice, but wandering around a book store and browsing is a treat. I have found books that I never would have thought to pick up if I were using Amazon to only get what I knew I wanted.
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That was mentioned yesterday and I thought ping!! amazon to take them over as a shop front browse the books but buy online no sales no tax and it can be written off against tax which will please them
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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They don't pay tax! 
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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thats not true they do just at a fraction of the rate and to other countries
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Bergholt Stuttley Johnson wrote: amazon to take them over as a shop front browse the books but buy online no
sales no tax
Cant speak as to where you are but I doubt that it true in any state in the US. Certainly wouldn't be true in most.
An online retailer that has a store front in a state is going to pay state and city taxes just like any other retailer. The payment model has nothing to do with it. And if there was a way to jigger the payment model to stop paying taxes the stores like walmart would already be doing it.
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Online book stores (and eventually electronic public libraries) need to improve their book-browsing experience.
They have to balance the business side of it, promoting up and coming books vs. more "underground" books from smaller publishers.
Now, it seems only block-busters are put up front, and it is hard to look for something else.
Nihil obstat
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I Agree. I like to handle a book and skim some of the pages before I purchase it. Especially if its a Tech book of any kind. Covers and ratings can be extremely deceptive about whether the stinking book is worth the 60 bucks or so they typically cost. Sounds good then you get it and it is basic level crap that is easily read on the internet.
Beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder
Be careful which toes you step on today, they might be connected to the foot that kicks your butt tomorrow.
You can't scare me, I have children.
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Maximilien wrote: Soon all major big-box book stores will also bite the bullet.
I doubt it.
Reading a book is not the same as watching a movie. A movie was always an electronic experience thus electronic delivery followed.
Books and magazines are not like that.
If there was a mad rush to the electronic form then Amazon wouldn't need to sell the non-electric form any more. (Nor would they need to push it as much as they do.) And the vast number of print magazines would be rapidly dwindling.
It could however be that long term there could be an impact.
Note as well that Amazon really, really doesn't want to see Barnes and Noble fold. At least not if they are smart. After Barnes and Noble the market share is limited to the stores like Walmart and independents. The former lacks depth and later, despite complaints, probably benefits (now) by the need to meet Barnes and Noble delivery needs. Without that the independents would be harder pressed to keep afloat and keep any market share.
And without that it is only a short trip to a US Justice Dept probe that leads into breaking up a monopoly.
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It is an odd thing.
I was progressing up the high street in a northerly direction just the other day.
We passed Blockbusters and I said to The Grand Nagus "I am surprised they are still going, who the hell goes and rents DVD's anymore?"
Michelle, (for it was she), said that she hadn't been in there for maybe 5 years.
Nor I, for that matter.
I think the last thing I rented was a game for a weekend (To see if it was investing in a real cash purchase).
Even games cannot be rented now as most of them are tied to the user.
Surely someone should have seen this coming?
Had I been at the management of BB some time ago I would have been building the web presence and doing digital rentals, then slowly deleveraging the debt via capital sales and leasing terminations.
The writing has been on the wall for some time.
Don't get me wrong, I liked BB, it was good, but only because it was a market leader at a time when there was a market.
Subsequently the market evaporated and with it, the business.
A shame.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Back in the day it used to be a good wheeze to rent a game for a day – I'm not sure if this is from Blockbuster or somewhere else like Gamestation – and cut it to a CD before taking it back. Since that's not possible these days there's probably less of a demand for renting games.
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Dunno if anyone else has mentioned it above, cuz I can't be bothered to look, but that was the single best subject line for a post on any post I've ever seen on CP
Can I have a P45 please Bob?
Awesome!
(I hope you didn't knick it from somewhere!)
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