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Valerie Koehler, the owner of Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston, said she had occasionally spotted customers who appeared to be typing titles into their phones instead of buying the books.
But she also suspects that the small size of her store helps her in this regard, because it has an intimacy that discourages offenders, she said.
“There’s really not much anonymity here,” Ms. Koehler said. “I think most people are coming in because they want to get something here.”
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People may be going into a bookstore to examine the books before buying from Amazon, but as the article suggests, it may be more likely to happen at a big box store than at an independent bookstore. Independent bookstores are in a better position to meet the demands for paper books in a market where paper books are a smaller portion of the market.