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Amazon is a lot cheaper – so what price loyalty to my local bookshop?

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An Amazon.com worker loads boxes of orders into a truck at the firm's warehouse in Fernley, Nevada. Photograph: Scott Sady/AP

Every week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it's up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday's paper.

Any answers?

We have a lovely independent bookshop in our town which I try to support. Amazon, though, is so much cheaper – on a recent purchase of three books I saved more than £13. Am I alone in wrestling with this? And at what price differential do other readers go online?

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