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Originally Posted by artifact
BnN got this. The marketing was you could (and still can?) walk into a bookstore and browse to your delight and purchase the ebook version right there in the store. That was a HUGE deal, IMO, when the Kindle was first scrambling for market share and absolutely not something Amazon can compete with. Kobo had/has something similar with Chapters in Canada.
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Way back when I was still going to the B&N and the nook first came out, I actually tried that. I would go to the store, browse around a bit and if I saw something that I liked, I checked the B&N ebook store to see if they had it. Most of the time, they didn't. So I would check with Amazon. If Amazon had it, I bought it from them, otherwise I bought the paper addition. For a couple of years, I was buying 50/50 with regards to ebooks/paper books.
(btw, I did buy a nook. After playing with it a bit, I still preferred my iPad and Sony PRS-505, so I ended up giving it to my sister. I've bought a lot of different ebook readers over the years. Ultimately, content is king. Sony was actually pushing Amazon on content early on and had a number of books that Amazon didn't have, which is why I bought a couple hundred books from the Sony ebook store. But they dropped the ball on the software side and Amazon blew past them. )