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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I truly don't see how selling kindles in a paper book store will cut down on paper book sales. It is not like kindles can't be bought elsewhere.
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You buy an ebook reader, you start buying ebooks. You get used to reading on an ereader because, say for instance, you don't have to deal with fonts that are too small or too light, and you stop buying paper books because with them you have to deal with those issues. I know that the amount of paper books that I have purchased over, say, the last five years, has steadily decreased while my ebook purchases have increased.
The independent booksellers are right to view the deal with Amazon as something that will eventually bite them in the...posterior.
I just was gifted with a paper book from a friend that has a lot of pages with earth-toned type on earth-toned pages. It looks pretty but my older eyes can no longer adjust to read something like that without straining.