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An entirely paperless bookshop - no.
However, since both my step-daughter and my best friend dislike e-books with a vengeance, but cannot walk past a bookshop without venturing in and spending an hour or so in retail therapy, I find myself browsing the shelves of bookshops quite a lot. However, I have not bought a paper book for myself since my first e-reader entered my life 3 years ago.
What I crave is a bookshop which has the ability for me to buy an e-book copy in the shop, rather than me having to note the name/author of a book I come across in store and searching the net later for a site from which to purchase it. Almost always this means the physical store group ends up not getting my money. Had they had a way that I could buy in store, then download to my laptop later from a dedicated download site, I would have happily purchased even knowing I could have bought for less on-line elsewhere.
Supporting my local bookshop would be lovely, if it supported my e-book habit!
(The download to a laptop is important to me for "cleaning" purposes).
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