I’ve been to Waterstones in several UK cities. They have an awesome selection of books, and great specials. Alas, in the US, bookstores are disappearing in many cities. Borders is gone, Barnes & Noble on shaky ground. If you live in a big city there might be a store somewhere. Then again, I’m in the 10th biggest city and there are few book stores. When I lived in Austin I went to sf book stories all the time. These are now closed, and here there are none with large sf selections. So, sadly, I buy from Amazon, as driving 20 minutes to a bookstore and not finding what I want is frustrating. But if I lived in the UK I’d shop at Waterstones even if they didn’t add cool stuff in books to lure people away from Amazon. Because nothing beats a good physical book store.