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Originally Posted by hansl
If they don't buy my ebooks anymore because I invited them to buy the ebooks somewhere else, I'd say it's a short-sighted profit. Also I wouldn't want to live from the charity of a giant. I mean, I help my strongest competitor to sell more books. Is that resonable? But since Amazon is too big to sense myself as competitor it's even more careless to tempt my few customers to move on.
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Not many people are likely to abandon paper books because a bookstore sells Kindles. It's not charity, both Amazon and the bookstore gain from it. There are people who read both e-books and paper books - does the bookstore want their business or not? Some bookstores are hostile to those with e-readers, but all this accomplishes is to chase away potential customers.
If someone reads both paper books and e-books, the bookstore is not going to succeed in making them buy paper books by berating them. Surely getting some of the customer's business is better than getting none of it. If you chase away customers who read both paper books and e-books, you get nothing. But if they come to you for their paper books, you at least get some sales. And if you're getting 10% from their sales of e-books, that's good too.