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Old 10-04-2008, 04:42 PM   #55
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Originally Posted by stustaff View Post
I would love to open up an Ebook/coffee store.

The customer experience would be like this.

You come in and sit at a table and touch the large landscape tablet PC on your table(there would be one per seat) to unlock it and then use the software to browse a library of books with full colour front and back covers, a waiter/ress comes over and takes a drinks order.
The electronic searching allows the standard title/author/genre and also then add things like if you like [insert author/book] then you will like these books, search by most popular downloaded by people who like a certain tv show or are from a specific city etc.

Make your purchases using your card in the machine and then connect your reader or type in your email address and you get your books.

I would spend a couple of hours in their every week no probs.
Just to play the devils advocate:

What would be the real advantage to a traditional library? Since you have to be in the place, the high mobility of electronic readers doesn't quite count. Acknowledge in a magazin based library it takes an hour to order a book out of the magazin. However for example at our natonal library I pay 10€ / year and I have access to an enourmous amount of books and I don't have to pay anything per card for any pay-per-use stuff. Also you have all the major daily newspapers for free there.

And all this digital searching and ordering by clicking OPAC can do for years already.

I love our national library, they got very comfortable chairs, good coffee machines, a big lot of books, and is usually swarmed by beautiful wormen. Too bad I soo seldomly take the time to go there.

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EDIT: Ok I get it now, in you ebook store you can take the copies at home. Sorry my fault, I thought you ment a place where you can go to read stuff on the "shops" eInk displays...

I think you are right, what I think is missing is the "salesman". A little expert you can go to and ask questions about stuff you want to buy. You don't get it. Yes amazon got some features like "others who bought that did buy this"... but it by far doesn't replace the expert you get in a good bookshop.
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