Buy books at your bookstore

"So, fellow local writers, when we go to a reading at Porter Square Books, we should buy something, even if it's not the book being featured. No one begrudges buying a ticket when we go to the movies, but for some reason we think spending an hour and a half at a bookstore listening to something we'll never hear anywhere else should be free. We should buy the books we want to own at PSB. And we should tell our local readers why they should buy our book at PSB, even if it costs more. Almost any book you can get from Amazon, including e-books, you can get from PSB: if it's not on the shelves today, you can order it. I'm sure most of us follow these rules already, but in tough times, for writers AND bookstores, they seem worth repeating. The future reading you save may be your own." --Author Leslie Brunetta in a post titled "Buying In" on the Porter Square Books Blog.

Via Shelf Awareness.