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Excellent question faith bw. How will book stores survive this change over in technology? My conjecture will be that they will survive by imitating Amazon, as borders and BN are already starting to do. They will sell you any title listed in in Books in Print in electronic format within minutes directly to your device. I read directly on my company provided blackberry, while I admit this method has its problems, it does allow me to combine my cell phone and electronic reader so that I can carry one device rather than two devices. And I can accomplish a stunt no one else can - I can read a Kindle book, then a Nook book (no ryme intended) then go straight to reading a borders book, just you try that with your dedicated reader.
What I am looking forward to is the next step in evolution beyond electronic reading: perhaps we will have a chip in planted in our brains and books will be sent directly to the brain. Realistically speaking the next step, I am told is the merge of electronic books and the tablet PCs with the tablets taking over this function.
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