Do You Buy Marketing and Business Books?

13 years ago

If you're a dinosaur so am I ... there's nothing like the feel of a real book in your hands. Unfortunately there are no Borders stores anywhere near me. Might be time for a road trip! Got any idea when the sale ends?

Guess I'll go Google it.

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WillDL

13 years ago

I buy marketing and business books all the time. I also take college courses on both whenever I can.

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Sojourn

13 years ago

Fellow dinosaur. I was one of those kids who always had her head buried in a book and I'm still that way. I think there are even pictures of me as a kid where all you could see were my eyes over the top of a book. I do all kinds of reading online but it's never relaxing. Relaxing reading comes from holding a book in my hand - soft cover, hard cover, whatever - I just want to be able to turn the pages.

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digitalmoolah

13 years ago

I am visually impaired, so I prefer the digital versions. My computer reads them to me at 200 words per minute. If I get the physical version, then I have to scan the pages one at a time which takes a while.

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Rich Struck

13 years ago

I prefer paper books as well. I collect antique business books and most of the information in them is just as relevant now as it was a hundred years ago, just the terms have changed.

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kellyburdes

13 years ago

I'm a 35 year old OLD man I guess, because I much prefer a book to digital.

I also can't write out good email messages or sales pages from the computer either. I have to write them out by hand with a pencil and wide ruled notebook, then have my assistant make out my chicken scratches and recopy it into a word document that I can then turn into my online sales copy.

Takes a bit of time, but for me it's the only way and well worth it. I used to think I was sort of odd, but I've talked to a number of the best copywriters and writers (fiction types) in the world who have told me they have to do the same thing, that made me feel a little better.

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Banned 13 years ago

Something about feeling the book in your hand...though, like I mentioned before, once pdfs have highlighting/majic marker capabalities built in, then, maybe, I can contribute to saving a tree or 2

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Tenzo

13 years ago

I have a Nook(which is the B&N ebook reader), and I do get a lot of ebooks for it. I thought it would help control my book addiction, but I buy just as many physical books as before-now I just spend more :p

The bulk of my business/investing books are physical-I tend to highlight and write notes in the margins.

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Don Schenk

13 years ago

Books - love 'em, so does my wife. There are over 3,000 books in our house.

When I read business and marketing books I usually have a yellow highlighter in hand. And if they are ebooks I often print them out.

Xpedx and Arvy office supply sells pre-punched (drilled) 3-hole paper. I print on that and stick the ebook in a 3-ring binder from Sam's Club. Now I can highlight to my heart's content.

:-Don

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marciayudkin 13 years ago

I am a die-hard paperback book reader, also.

The idea of reading a novel on an electronic device does not appeal to me one bit.

I might eventually warm up to reading reference books and those I'm reading for purely utilitarian purposes - to extract the information - on a Kindle. But not yet.

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magnates

13 years ago

Originally Posted by kindsvater

I picked up a bunch of books today at the Borders going out of business sale. My office is jammed with physical books - which I greatly prefer to digital versions.

Am I a dinosaur and you're all digital? Or do you also take comfort in physical books?

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No . you are not a dinosaur .

I think i have higher tendency to read a book if it is a physical book than digital book

On some occasions ,There are so many things to distract me when am on my computer that stops me from completing a digital book

I have learnt so much from physical . sometimes you just a book you can hold

~Femi

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Zesh

13 years ago

Physical Books is the way for me. I am pretty short sighted and I hate reading stuff online so I either print it off or simply stick to the traditional format

Nothing better than a good old fashioned BOOK! :p

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JohnMcCabe 13 years ago

If you're a dinosaur, we'll be sharing the tar pit...

I haven't tried a Kindle or similar product yet, but I much prefer a physical book to reading on a computer screen.

For purely recreational reading, give me the dead-tree version every time...
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Rose Anderson

13 years ago

Hooray for fellow dinosaurs! There's nothing like sitting down with a good book. A kindle will never take the place of physical books. I finally turned my "formal" living room into a library because I ran out of places to put them all.

I also print out ebooks. Easier to read that way and I can make notes in the margins.

But I did crack and get a kindle for travel. I always made my carry-on too heavy because I couldn't decide for sure what I'd want to read so I'd overload it with 5 or 6 books...lol

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Kay King 13 years ago

I began reading books at age 3 and have never stopped. I read several books a week - always the physical version. If I buy a marketing ebook - I print it out and then read it.

I have a shelf where printed out business/marketing ebooks are placed in 3-ring binders. Not nearly as good looking as a real book.

I don't have a Kindle or Nook - I've considered them but I prefer "real" books.

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- kindsvater 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Kay King
  
  I have a shelf where printed out business/marketing ebooks are placed in 3-ring binders. Not nearly as good looking as a real book.
  
  And they don't always fit on the shelf.
  
  I've been contemplating taking some of the useful pdfs, submitting them to Amazon books, ordering myself a copy for a few bucks so I have a real book, then deleting the listing.
  
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- fluffythewondercat 13 years ago
  
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  I've never owned an electronic reader, never will. You can't take them into the Jacuzzi with you.
  
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SeasideMarketer

13 years ago

I tend to get my marketing knowledge online but for motivation I do love the old physical books!

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Michael Meaney

13 years ago

I prefer reading physical books to any kind of digital product.

There's a small pile from my last Amazon spree that I still have to get though.

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design2convert

13 years ago

I think you are a webmaster (?) , do you buy books still ?

I havent time and and i never wish to but books from market or any other sites , just try in google , and everything is free on google if you can handle it

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Andyhenry

13 years ago

I buy books constantly. I have books everywhere. By my bed, by the bath, by the toilet, in the car, by the front door - and of course in lots of boxes and bookcases.

I buy books every week. I love to read.

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ShayB 13 years ago

I love books - the dead tree kind.

I love e-books, too, but the paper ones are my favorites.
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Yogini

13 years ago

I like pdfs but I also love going to Barnes and Nobles to sit with chai, look at a book and purchase it if it's interesting. There is something very nice about sitting on the porch with an ice tea and a book in a lounge chair that just doesn't seem the same on a screen.

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Jake Gray

13 years ago

Actually I prefer physical books too. If I were to read an eBook, it'd
have to be somewhat short. I cannot stare at a screen for hours and
still pay attention. I actually bought two books today off of Amazon,
both of which are related to psychology.

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Rod Cortez

13 years ago

Originally Posted by kindsvater

I picked up a bunch of books today at the Borders going out of business sale. My office is jammed with physical books - which I greatly prefer to digital versions.

Am I a dinosaur and you're all digital? Or do you also take comfort in physical books?

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So did I. I really stocked up on a bunch of books I've been dying to read and others to re-read.

Though I definitely have more digital products on my hard drives, I still have quite a library of business, marketing, and self development books. I also prefer physical hard books. I just like being able to hold them and carry them around with me without having to worry about a digital device.

Besides I'm a klutz and read a lot in my pool. A book is much easier to replace than a tablet or a laptop. lol

RoD

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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by kindsvater

Am I a dinosaur and you're all digital? Or do you also take comfort in physical books?

Great comfort.

I like my "pound of paper".

I very strongly prefer physical books.

On a different but related note, I also trust "orthodox publishers", collectively, overwhelmingly more than online publishers, because of the enormous investments they make in their publications, which tends to predicate professional editing, peer-review, genuine authorial expertise, and so on. Digital-only books have, of course not universally but overall, far less quality control in all the stages of their production.

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stefalex

13 years ago

Definitely, I buy business books all the time.

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SUPER Louie

13 years ago

Wouldn't it be confusing if you buy too many books on marketing? I mean their ideas will all be different, how would you be able to focus on one topic, and make money from it if you buy many books?

I bought a lot of business books before. I was so overwhelmed with the different ideas they gave that I don't know how to start anymore

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Willie Crawford

13 years ago

I have a ton of both. When I get an ebook, if it's really good, I usually
print it out and mark it up.

I also mark up regular physical books... although I still feel uneasy
doing that because books still feel somewhat "sacred" to me. I also
realize that when I mark up books autographed by the author that
I'm probably destroying chances of that book becoming a collectible.

I also personally publish a lot of books on Amazon Kindle... but don't
own a Kindle yet

Willie

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travlinguy

13 years ago

I'm also a lover of the printed book. And like Willie, I treat them with respect. I used to be close to someone who would fold the corners of pages to mark her place in a book. Ugh. It would literally make my stomach flutter to see that.

I've read about a dozen books in the last couple of months. One of them was really a surprise to me. Quantum physics relating to string theory. I'm not much of a science guy but this book blew me away. And as a writer, I find that if I ever get stuck for something to write, reading helps get the words flowing again. I think I might be a Brontosaurus.

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13 years ago

Since I was a student I always had this habit of highlighting, underlining and encircling very important points whenever I read, and I just font get that satisfaction on digital books. So yeah...hello there fellow dinosaur