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What makes you buy a book?

Mindy Klasky is running a survey on her LJ to try and figure out how you go about buying a book, what catches your attention, what helps you decide. If you buy books, please consider filling it out.

Filed under the topic Books, On Writing: Business on June 22nd 2007 at 10:23 am. You can subscribe to the RSS feed for this entry to keep track of comments. You can also use to trackback.

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2 Responses so far

1. Wyman Cooke on Jun 22nd, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Interesting. I’ve decided to buy books through 11 of the 15 answers.
2. Steve Buchheit on Jun 23rd, 2007 at 9:30 pm
I had fewer reasons, but those were all reasons I wanted to buy a book. What makes me buys a book? Well, if the author is literally twisting my arm in the bookstore I’d consider the book heavily. Now, threatened swirlies, if I think they could actually carry it out, that’s a dead-ringer for a sale.

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