This week for my discussion post, I'm wondering how everyone feels about preordering books!
I personally preorder most everything. Living in the middle of nowhere, South Dakota makes that the most convenient method of obtaining books. There is one store in the town near me that sells books, but they have the worst selection ever. There is a library in that town, but they don't really seem to get new books. Then the nearest places that have a decent selection of books to buy are all 2-3 hours away.
Having Amazon Prime makes preordering books the BEST way to go about getting them as well! Free shipping and you're guaranteed to get it on release day? Yes please! That way you actually have a chance to get the book read before someone posts something on twitter that you didn't want to see. Which seems to happen to me frequently.
Then there are the ever tempting signed preorders. I just jumped on that bandwagon for awhile, but as amazing as it is to have a book signed by the author, the price and the wait just haven't proved to be worth it for me. All the books I've gotten signed have ended up costing me double of what it would have cost me on Amazon. And the shipping seems to take FOREVER! I'm not about that life. Even if I'm not about to have the chance to get them signed myself anytime soon because no one ever comes to South Dakota. But that's okay.
I know that buying books from those places that offer signed preorders is better because they're actual bookstores, but I always try to buy a few books in real bookstores when I go out shopping so I think that makes up for the insane amount of books I order off Amazon. Plus, TWO DAY SHIPPING EEQUALS YES!
But my new favorite thing about preordering books is definitely all the sweet swag you get as an incentive to preorder! I'm SO jazzed about the short story Alexandra Bracken is writing in the TDM world that you get for preordering Passenger! I have had that one preordered since it was available for preorder I think!
So tell me friends, do you preorder books? Where do you like to preorder books from? Do you prefer the signed copies or do you live someplace awesome where you can get them signed yourself (lucky)?