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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i'd love to be able to do that too ; go to a bookstore, browse through the shelves, talk to the bookstore owner, and download whatever titles i'm interested in directly there. they could even set up accounts so that if there's a line, you don't have to wait to pay, you can just authorise the transaction online. and, if most of the paper books are display copies, they could have a lot more unique titles to discover, and if they don't have a paper copy of the one you want... it's not really a problem (no more waiting 3 weeks for the order). i think the technology is ready or almost ready for us to almost everything in the video ; we *could* (if all goes well) see it begin to happen really soon.
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But surely if you had bookstores to go into to buy e-books, then e-books wouldn't be much cheaper because of the lower vendor costs
.....errrrm, oh yeah, sorry!