People who shopatAmazon do not, after all, have to worry about installing, upgrading or maintaining anything: they just fire up their browsers, and it works.
As you may be aware, Amazon does actually already make it easier for you to shopat places other than Amazon.com with its Amazon Payments service, and it now looks like it might even be thinking about expanding things to brick and mortar stores as well.
The book was published in 2006 and I assumed it would not be lining the shelves of our small, local bookstore (where I try to shop wherever possible) so I did what many parents did and one-clicked my way over and bought it atAmazon.