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Originally Posted by cfrizz
I think you will see a drastic reduction of big book superstores and more specialty stores opening since ereaders can't do justice really to the large pictorial books.
I don't think paperbooks will ever totally go away, but I do think in time, ereaders will over take the format for novels thereby lessening the need for B&M stores.
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And kids books. I prefer hardcover kids books and I buy quite a lot of them.
(I just picked up a book from the locally owned bookstore on Tuesday that I had ordered for my second grader and was very disappointed when it turned out to be a paper copy. It didn't occur to me to ask when I ordered it -- the second book in the series that was in stock was hardcover and I had just assumed the first one would be too.
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For the last three or four years, the only thing I go into B&M bookstores is as a treat for the kids. I will be sad if that goes away.