{"id":255,"date":"2011-05-11T19:02:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T23:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/?p=255"},"modified":"2011-05-11T19:02:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T23:02:40","slug":"how-to-buy-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/2011\/05\/11\/how-to-buy-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Buy a Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, recently I\u2019ve changed my buying patterns when it comes to books.\u00a0 I decided it didn\u2019t make any sense to keep giving Amazon money when there are bookstores in Richmond that are closing.\u00a0 Now when there\u2019s a book I want, I add the title, author, ISBN and ISBN-13 to a note I keep in Evernote.\u00a0 Then I go to Barnes &amp; Noble to buy the books.<\/p>\n<p>Frequently they don\u2019t have the books I want in stock.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t make sense for them to stock lots of books on higher education or specifically on teaching and learning.\u00a0 But if I go to the information desk, they are happy to look up the books, order them, and apply my member discount to the purchase.\u00a0 As a member, they ship the books to my house at a faster-than-standard shipping speed, for no extra cost.\u00a0 In the end the books are a bit pricier than Amazon, but the store gets credit for the sale (as opposed to purchases on the B&amp;N web site), which will hopefully help to keep the store around.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not bound to Barnes &amp; Noble in particular: they\u2019re just the closest bookstore.\u00a0 I want to find additional booksellers who might not be part of a big chain (suggestions from fellow Richmonders are welcome).<\/p>\n<p>My goal is to help the stores in town.\u00a0 Amazon is great for making additional recommendations, but I still like browsing.\u00a0 And just as so many people enjoy libraries as spaces, my family and I love to hang out in bookstores, reading books while we have a little coffee.\u00a0\u00a0 So I think it\u2019s worth it to spend a bit more so the store can stay and the people working in the store can stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, recently I\u2019ve changed my buying patterns when it comes to books.\u00a0 I decided it didn\u2019t make any sense to keep giving Amazon money when there are bookstores in Richmond that are closing.\u00a0 Now when there\u2019s a book I want, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/2011\/05\/11\/how-to-buy-a-book\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[121,122,124,123,125,27],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","tag-amazon","tag-barnes-noble","tag-book-stores","tag-books","tag-buying-locally","tag-richmond"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}