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Are you getting warmed up for the Friday night rant UG?
Devil's advocate, but why? Why support my local bookstores when I can save loads of money buying the same books from Amazon? It's not like Amazon are selling an inferior product as in the case of local butcher/fishmonger's locally sourced meat versus supermarket mass-produced meat. It's an interesting debate - a buyer's market and we're being told we shouldn't partake and fill our boots.I'm wondering whether I should put the NW lime guide on Amazon (if I ever finish it) or if I should boycott.
On the 'they don't pay any tax' issue - can someone who knows explain this - in terms of, are they doing whatever they do within the boundaries of whatever HMRC allows for companies operating in the UK? Same applies to all the other baddies like Starbucks - who pays more tax than they have to?
I'm not sure of all the details and as he seemed so fed up I didn't want to push him ...... It is a damned good read though ......
Just for the record, I never described Amazon as a bubble.
I know it's cockerknee rhyming slang, but isn't the term 'bubble' regarded as non-pc these days ....... ?
Quote from: grumpycrumpy on December 08, 2013, 07:20:09 amI know it's cockerknee rhyming slang, but isn't the term 'bubble' regarded as non-pc these days ....... ?Really? Maybe in other contexts but not in economics surely. It's been the label of choice for periods of 'irrational exuberance' for three hundred years at least.
Quote from: andy popp on December 08, 2013, 07:40:48 amQuote from: grumpycrumpy on December 08, 2013, 07:20:09 amI know it's cockerknee rhyming slang, but isn't the term 'bubble' regarded as non-pc these days ....... ?Really? Maybe in other contexts but not in economics surely. It's been the label of choice for periods of 'irrational exuberance' for three hundred years at least.Yep, The South Sea Bubble. Even Issac Newton lost his shirt.
Well, as grumpy said above, if you buy through amazon then the author is probably only getting 30p or so royalty, which doesn't seem right.
On the plus side bookshops and gear shops (that sell climbing books) will be greatly missed if they go: they provide the ability to look and see and feel and often a lot more besides, and people are paying not such a huge amount extra for that service.
I'd like to see some more aggressive questioning and actions by their institutional shareholders.