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Originally Posted by pwjone1
The Google Bookstore deal with local bookstores:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/bu...okstore&st=cse
got me to thinking about what an eBookstore might look like. The web model is pretty obvious and out there already. But what is the bricks & mortar equivalent? I think that ultimately it might go something like this: |
I would never set foot in this bookstore of the future.
I value my privacy, and I value the serendipity of browsing casually through the aisles of a bookstore, maybe one day deciding to venture beyond my comfort zone in my search for a book.
I already don't like the way Amazon in particular tries to track my search habits and recommend books for me--it rarely finds anything of interest to me.