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Originally Posted by julia103
If I could buy a book as an e-book while in the store, instead of going home to buy it, that would be good. It would be convenient for me as a consumer, and, depending on how the companies set it up, it might mean that some of my money would go to the store where I decided to buy the book. Currently I can spend an hour in Borders but they don't get any of my money because I'm going to buy the book as an e-book if possible.
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That's the idea. The bookseller is a retailer. They will buy from a wholesaler or publisher. There will be no fundamental difference between paper and electronic books in that sense. What you pay for the title will be the price the bookseller paid for it plus a markup to cover their costs and make them some money, and they'll get a cut of the proceeds.
Will their price be higher than you might be charged on line? Possibly. Will it be enough higher to outweigh the convenience of browsing and doing paper and ebook purchases all at once and in the same place? Hopefully not.
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Dennis