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“The shift from the physical to the digital book can pick up some of the economic slack, but it can’t pick up the loss that is created when you don’t have the customers browsing the displays,” said Laurence J. Kirshbaum, a literary agent. “We need people going into stores and seeing a book they didn’t know existed and buying it.”
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I've bought more books that I didn't know existed from browsing online while buying an ebook than I ever did on impulse purchases in bookshops, over the same period. And I love bookshops.
Graham