Retiree Jon Sims of the Laurelhurst neighborhood has a Kindle and has bought about 10 e-books on Amazon over the past few months. But after years of buying only online, he's bought about 15 books in print and avoids shopping on Amazon as much as he can. 'I've tried much harder to go to brick-and-mortar stores,' he said. 'It's a slow accumulation of what you learn about Amazon's business practices over the years, but the Hachette dispute was probably the tipping point.' Small contradictions — the Amazon lover who also supports the local bookstore, and the Amazon skeptic who still buys e-books for his Kindle — point to internal conflicts for readers who are becoming more and more aware of their purchasing power. It's a classic case of convenience versus conscience. At a recent gathering of Seattle's Meetup Book Club, for readers in their twenties and thirties, 11 members were split between those who prioritize convenience and those who view Amazon's business practices as monopolistic and strong-arm.