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Originally Posted by bbusybookworm
I wonder if Sony could develop a Point of Sale system which would allow people to buy and load ebooks in the store itself.
A system like this would probably be easier with Mobi or Ereader where you don't need to authorise the machine to load book's onto a device, but surely Sony could make a special version of Library, etc to allow stores to do so. Maybe tie it to a smart card or something so customers could easily buy books from different locations without having to enter detaile in each place again and again.
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Yes, this would be great. The store could be like a video store. Where just the covers are on the shelf. Maybe there could be a cover and summary and a couple of chapters done in a durable plastic. You could browse the books and then take it to the kiosk to buy.
I don't think any smart card would be required at all. The reader itself would be the smart card. Since the reader is registered to your account... as soon as you connect it to the kiosk it could identify the reader and what account it went to. You could swipe your credit card and swipe the "books" from shelf that you want to buy. It would add the ebook to your account and transfer it to your reader.
If it was a new or unregistered account it would prompt you from a username/password to create your account. I don't think the kiosk should allow you to register to an existing account, probably woudn't be needed.
The above would also solve the problem of a Sony reader user to need a Windows PC. A Mac or Linux or non-PC-at-all person could just go to the store to buy/load more books.
BOb