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Originally Posted by MV64
I'm sure this has been said already: But why would I go to a brick and mortar e-bookstore?
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This. Why would I want to go to a store when I can buy ebooks at home in my pajamas?
I also don't get why I would want small bookstores offering google's ebooks. It's not like they have a different selection than what I can get directly from Google, nor is there a limitation preventing me from going to the source like Overdrive and library books (I can always buy direct from Google, but I can't go straight to Overdrive without going through my local library). This is just adding yet another middleman that will need to get paid.
If this is just about making it possible for little bookstores not to go out of business with the format shift from paper to electronic bits, boohoo. Maybe they should go talk to buggy whip manufacturers. They don't have a "right" to a business model, and if ebooks kills the physical bookstore business model then so be it.