Dissertation study - fancy doing us a big favour?

[goose]

Done. I thought I ought to contribute more since I was outted for lurking the other day. For me, book shops are for browsing and buying books I never knew I wanted. Online if I know exactly what I'm ordering.

[Carradona]

Done. Good luck with the dissertation, Pete!

[piscinin]

Spot on. Theres always the opportunity to trade through Amazon, but they'd still have to end up lowering their prices to compete with the sellers doing the same so its really not an option.

 

Thats the reason for the last question in the survey, I'm looking for the most effective way for the business to use the internet - if that means investing in a big online marketing campaign that might be the solution.

 

If they are going to go online they either need to be highly specialized and draw a specific demographic (e.g. I've seen anarchist and occult sites like that) or sell niche products like rarities that are high margin, low-volume. If they have neither it's difficult to imagine why people would go back to them even after a big marketing campaign.

[The-Sir]

10 more needed guys!

[Trumo]

9 more needed.

[razor]

8 needed.

 

But I lied about my age.

 

 

I didn't really.

 

 

But I did lie about my social network status.

 

 

 

 

I didn't really.

 

 

PS Pete, you say 2 mins, you should say 30 secs!

[Son of L8]

Got in there.

 

I'm hardly representative though, as I have a peculiar and somewhat anachronistic relationship with books. I've spent most of my life working with the written word in one form or another, and I have a strange (even to me) reverence for them. I never have bought a book from an online shop and never will, and only once or twice in my life have used a chain bookstore (they're too organized, too sanitized, they creep me out). I cringe at the very concept of e-readers, and don't use the internet for much more than following sport and occasionally doing superficial spot research for a project I might be writing. Even new books bother me, they dont look or feel right until they've had the spine cracked, a few pages dog-eared and half a cup of tea spilled on them.

 

I'll go to independent or used bookstores once or twice a week, buy something almost every visit and almost never have any idea what I want when I go in. So I'm not much of a case study, as I'm hardly the target audience for places like that trying to expand. They couldn't get more money out of me short of holding a gun to my head.

[kidney]

Done. Good Luck. 7 needed

[TheResonator]

Dominated that quiz. Answered all of them right, I reckon.

[The-Sir]

4 more please.

[Jim MM]

I always had the same kind of relationship with bookshops as with record shops. I go in, maybe looking for something specific, but can spend hours mooching around looking at other things and come away with things I never intended buying.

And I miss record shops, they've been hit a lot harder by the internet, there are two bookshops here but the only record shop closed down last year. Music accepts digitization better than literature but it loses something in the process. God be with the days when every second person on your Saturday afternoon street would have their Golden Discs or Leeside Music bag of vinyl and the swagger that it gave you.

[rb14]

I'm not doing one you pissy-faced scraggy-haired lazy cuntfuck.

 

Unless you tell me you still fancy me.

 

 

 

 

 

Do I get a prize for furthest away survey-completer?

[The-Sir]

Only at the weekends Rog!

 

2 more results needed guys, then thats the lot. Cant thank yers enough, if this helps me get a 1st which helps me to get a decent enough job theres a pint in it for you all! Huzzah.

[Guest ShoePiss]

Done

[Sut]

Done. Good luck.

[Paulie Dangerously]

Done..too late

 

My opinion counts for nothing

[paulie walnuts]

Done

[VladimirIlyich]

Done.

 

I might be too late but just in case you want to look like the teachers pet by doing a bit more work.

 

I have just recently got into ebooks on my ipod,its a decent idea for fiction but not the best for reference books because of the small screen.

 

Good luck

[The-Sir]

Cheers for all the help guys, if I think on I'll let yas know how I get on with it!

[melons]

8 needed.

 

But I lied about my age.

 

 

I didn't really.

 

 

But I did lie about my social network status.

 

 

 

 

I didn't really.

 

 

PS Pete, you say 2 mins, you should say 30 secs!

 

 

Isn't exaggerating about how long things take a man thing?

[piscinin]

Isn't exaggerating about how long things take a man thing?

 

Yep, second only to exaggerating how long things are.

[rb14]

Cheers for all the help guys, if I think on I'll let yas know how I get on with it!

My money's on us not getting to know then.