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I think that's just what I need. I'm planning to use it for surfing and reading and just putting my computer away most of the time. I think it sounds perfect for me. 
They provide a valuable service and I couldntblive with our my kindle fire 
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than if I had gone the long, slow, complicated traditional route. They're a dream to deal with for someone like me.
I'm also an ideal customer for them. I use them for a whole lot, and am delighted to have access to so much. I love local stores and shop local, but if I can't get it, in two days I can have it through them.
I'm also a pragmatist. Half the stuff we own, not the least of which are the computers we're tying on, are produced in ways we would think is barbaric. Do I work for betterment of those conditions? I do. Do I buy from people without deeply researching their practices? I do.
And if anyone is curious about the book, PM me.
By favoring the small bookseller, we are supporting local business, and also supporting corporations. Worse, we are supporting corporate censorship.
How many publishers were there before the self publishing revolution for writers? Perhaps there were six, or ten publishing houses. The result was a finite number of books, from an even smaller group of authors. Those books were rejected or chosen based upon the whim of the publishing corporations. Let's not forget that Rush Limbaugh got two books published during this era of small local book stores that were both on the NY Times bestsellers. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/20/1271086/-Why-I-m-Grateful-for-Rush-Limbaugh That isn't admiration, that is admission of the fact by the way. (I have to point that kind of thing out since I am regularly referred to and defending myself against charges of being a troll etc.)
Now, how many authors were given rejection letters while Limbaugh was given signing bonus checks? How many ideals died in the dustbins around the world because Limbaugh had the printing presses running flat out for his drivel?
By favoring a return to the availability of books only through the small town book stores, aren't we really advocating a return to the six or ten companies that would censor ideals and creativity through the selection criteria they regularly used? Also, many books, my own pathetic attempt included, are for sale for a mere $0.99 at Amazon. Yes, there are literally hundreds of thousands of books available for about a buck which is pathetically cheap. As a youth, I remember thinking that books on sale for six bucks was a great bargain, and spending twenty bucks or more for a hardcover edition. Those six dollar books may have been better edited, and yes I could use an editor, or perhaps an editrix to whip my books into shape. 
But were they superior entertainment or information? I don't really think so with a few notable exceptions.
Let's pretend that this e-reader revolution never happened. Most publishing companies had stopped accepting manuscripts cold shopped. So now you have to send your work to various agents in an effort to get signed, so the agent can then shop your manuscript around to those same corporate publishers, if you get signed by the agent, and then you had to be able to be pictured on the back of your book, so Isis help you if you were less than picturesque, because that would harm your sales outlook. Now, if you met the criteria, then you had to go city to city, doing book signings, and every morning show across the nation, trying to generate interest in your book. After six months, or a year, your book was taken off the shelves of that small town book store, sent back to the publisher, and you dropped off the face of the earth.
I'm not sure we want a return to that environment, at least not as an author, or a reader.
