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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I can think of a couple of ways to do it.
Once wifi is available on the device, it's simple -- the customer connects to an instore wifi hotspot and downloads. Selections can be made from a list at a kiosk, and paid for by credit card. Once the charges are authorized, the customer connects via wifi and downloads the purchases.
For devices without wifi, the solution might be a kiosk for selection, with books copied to an SD card dispensed by the kiosk.
We'll see.
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Dennis
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Ideally, you'd be able to grab a book off the shelf, take it to the Sony kiosk, scan the barcode, run your Borders card through a reader(which would be tied into your Sony Connect Account), and then run your credit card. When you get home, the book is waiting in your Sony Connect Library (ideally now web-based) to be transferred to your reader. An Optional SD slot to get the book or even USB plug-in for the reader itself are also possibilities for those who want the book accessible immediately.
ScS
Edit: OK, clearly should have read farther, most of these ideas have been mentioned already. The main point is that multiple options for a brick and mortar shopping experience are possible, and probably technically much simpler than those talking self-checkout counters at the grocery store :-)