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Originally Posted by Arrghus
As Waterstone's hasn't exactly been pushing eReaders too heavily in store, perhaps this won't be that big an issue. Whenever I'm in Waterstone's I NEVER, EVER, see anybody trying out the two they usually have on display.
If they improve the current buying experience (i.e. their clunky website), and promote waterstones.com as a viable (and more importantly, better) alternative to Amazon, then perhaps they will not alienate early adopters who bought other eReaders from them.
Not everybody will want to strip the DRM from titles downloaded from the Kindle store and then convert them using Calibre. If they can get their regular customers onboard and not have them feel they are being ripped off when they hear how their friends are getting eBooks at least 25% cheaper from their biggest internet rival, then perhaps Waterstone's ARE on to something. We'll see.
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I really hope so and hope they improve their ebookstore.