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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Or they could just not sell eBooks, which is what they do now.
What benefit is there to them to selling eBooks anyway?
a) Who wants to go to a physical store to buy digital goods anyway, the idea just frankly seems silly.
b) They are just cannibalizing sales from someone who has chosen to come into the store, presumably hoping to buy a pBook from them.
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Or, they could sell pbooks in-store (and online, which many b&m stores do on the side), and ebooks online. Support whatever the reader likes.
Powell's does in-store and online, they used to do pbooks pre-Agency.
(I bought from them in the PDA era.)
Selling books is hard but it's way harder if you dig in on the old ways and don't adapt to the times and don't use all available channels.
https://www.powells.com
Today selling ebooks is too tied to the walled gardens to make much money off white label sites, but it used to be profitable before agency. A Kobo partnership isn't necessarily bad. At least you get some money from people who wouldn't be coming to the store.