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Originally Posted by Xanthe
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.
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I understand that, but I don't think people are just going to start buying ereaders because a bookstore is selling them. It is not like they will gravitate to the gadget counter and start oohing and saying I gotta have me one of those just because they are in a paper book store.
I doubt the sales would be that big, but if a regular customer is happier buying one for themselves or as a gift at their favorite bookstore then the store might make a few bucks as opposed to the zero bucks they would make if the customer went to Amazon or one of the many outlets already selling them.
Helen