What I also find interesting is that this is an example of brick and mortar stores and ebooks working with each other! So that the joy of browsing through your favorite bookstore wouldn't have to go the way of extinction. I pulled this quote from another thread called "Buy Local".
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https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32786
I see no reason at all why bookstores cannot sell ebooks. I enjoy looking around bookstores, but I would prefer to buy ebooks. There is no reason why they couldn't allow a terminal for you to swipe your credit card when you've decided on a book & download it onto either the device or your flash card/usb device. The biggest holdup in ebooks, DRM an also be covered as you'd have to type in your PID or however else you do it. Technically I don't see it being any more difficult than trying to get photos printed from High St stores with your flash/CDROM or camera from these instore print terminals.
Even better if you could take the book, swipe it's bar code & the terminal then tells you what you can do with it...
Several shops have ebook stores, WHSmith & Waterstones for example it is surely the next stage to link the 2 for easier access & browsing.
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