We simply cannot compete with those vendors on price.  What we believe we do deliver is a contribution to the quality of life in the community that remote mail order businesses cannot and will not provide.  Each reader will make his or her choice on the basis of what is most important to them.  Retail bookstores may well be the buggy whip stores of a previous century.  In 1992, when I was president of the American Booksellers Association there were about 4500 independent bookstores.  Today there are fewer than 1500 (…) Many folks understand the difference between price (what one pays for an item) and true cost (what one gets and/or sacrifices for it).  Many believe that what we, and other independent businesses, contribute to the life of the community makes the cost of buying from us lower than buying from Amazon or WalMart or…

E agora, pergunto eu, que depois de muito reclamar tenho vindo a comprar cada vez mais nas Fnac’s? Tenho pena, muita pena, mas enquanto estudante não-trabalhadora (ou trabalhadora não renumerada) não me posso dar ao luxo de comprar o mais caro. Mas, certamente, que mal tenha um ganha-pão a minha escolha recairá sempre sobre as livrarias tradicionais.