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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
But who would do this? As I watch the snow come down outside, I'm really happy that I don't need to go out to buy...well, anything. And since I read book reviews mostly on my computer, and enjoy the ease of going from the review directly to Amazon if I'm interested (and before I forget), I'm not sure why I would go into a "book showroom" in the first place.
I do think that pbooks will continue to exist for a long time, as will bookstores, but that bookstores won't be able to really appeal to e-book purchasers.
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I don't have a bookstore as my destination--but that's been true for a long time because of Internet shopping.
But I always stop in my local BN and Borders stores when I'm in the vicinity of either one, doing other shopping. I browse, usually rather aimlessly. I have often found something on the shelves that interests me, and purchased on a whim.
Now that I have an e-reader (recent purchase, only two months), I still browse, but then I go home and see if an e-book is available--and I might switch to a different store than the one I browsed in. If I could buy the e-book in the store, I'd probably impulse-buy the same way I'd previously bought the paperback.