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Old 04-10-2008, 01:15 AM   #30
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How good would this be: You go to a bookstore (e.g. Dymocks down here), browse books, find the one you want, go to the register and say "I'd like this in e-book format please".
Dymocks main shop in Sydney does a similar thing in places, but it's a bit labour intensive - the SF staff mark books that are available as ebooks. I whined about it and the ebook selling dude said they were trying to get manglement approval on the basis that it would help sell more iLiad's (which Dymocks also sell). Unfortunately I think manglement are following the number of "but ebooks are too expensive if I buy them from you" comments rather than just the $900 retail price of the iLiad.

Dymocks is a shocking seller of ebooks, they don't seem to realise that their competition is "anything on the internet" not "the pbookshop across the road". All my purchases so far have been from US bookshops.
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