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Originally Posted by Robertb
Dear 6Charlong:
This is an old Dale Depriest idea. I loved it and my boss thought that a Kiosk was too old fashioned. We manufacture POS hardware at Astak. Doing a suitable KIOSK would be easy for us.
Frankly, I LOVE the idea of walking into a B&N and strolling the aisles to find the books I want and then stroll to the KIOSK to have all my purchases downloaded to my device. Maybe the KIOSK even spits out a discount coupon for 50 cents off your Starbucks. To me... KIOSK is the way to go with retail stores!
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The idea is only old fashioned if you think brick-and-mortar bookstores are old fashioned. Maybe they are, but that's part of their charm: big old easy chairs, hot coffee or tea and a leisurely hour of reading. That old fashioned charm is something I miss while buying pbooks from Amazon. But charm or not, I will only buy paper books when paper is the reasonable format--like books with large pages, ones that depend on images, maps or diagrams, books for very young children, etc. But when I'm in bookstore for something, I'd like to be able to get a novel, too, and that B&N store had some enchanting displays.