The Washington Post
reports (free reg req) that
Politics and Prose, one of the most enduring independent bookstores in Washington DC and participant in the
Caravan Project, has started to sell e-book titles in-store.
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Imagine you're a customer looking for a book you don't find on the shelf. As you would now, you'll likely ask a bookseller to check the store computer for it. As is not yet possible, the bookseller will say: "We can order you a print copy or we can sell it to you in other formats, some of which could be ready for downloading by the time you get home. How would you like it?"
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Well, e-books and bookstores, these two totally go together, I think. But HarperCollins and another unnamed big-name company quoted in the article disagree, and they believe it's going to be irrelevant for publishers. On which side are you?
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