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Originally Posted by dickloraine
I don't know if it would be practical in the usa, because of the size and population density, but it hasn't to be so. In germany you can order a book in a shop and get it the next day most of the time. But books are a bit more pricy here and have set prices. If the retailers in the us would take a cut from their profit to have intermediate retailers that provide the books, they could beat or match amazons delivery times. Oh, and the system can be used by small shops too, so for example in the suburb where I growed up, there was a small store for pens etc. where you also could order books.
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Comparing to USA, US publishers and retailers could have banded together under a common hardware platform to compete against Amazon. Like Tolino in Germany. Wonder why they didn't. Lack of will? Saw B&N failure and figured it was hopeless?