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Originally Posted by church mouse
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!
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I completely agree with this. I feel like bookstores haven't caught on as much as they should with this. The one thing I miss about being a ebook reader is that I don't get that in-store experience any more. How great would it be for each book to have a code, or even for the barcode to be scanned to your device, so you can buy or add an ebook to your reader. That would be brilliant.
My guess is that something like this might happen with the big retailers first who already have ebook stores (B&N kind of does it, I had hopes for Indigo/Chapters before they sold Kobo). It will be hard for local retailers to create their own ebook "libraries" to sell.