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Originally Posted by Robert Marquard
I doubt it. A bookstore is more than a place to buy books. The bookstore i go to http://www.morgenwelt.org does things like reading sessions etc. No ebook device will ever be able to replace such a social meeting point.
Hugendubel (a big bookstore chain) has coffee shops in their stores and allows to read books from the shelves there.
All in all bookstores are too important in promoting books to be abandoned. |
Hardly. Tower Books and others have kiosks where customers can listen to songs from their favorite artists. There's no reason why a modern store can't have ebook readers in the 'reading section' which contain a sampling of new releases or even let the clerks download a given title to the store's ebook readers. And with RFID tags being so small and easy to hide, the stores could have alarms built into them which track the readers so no one can steal them out of the store.
I think this would be a great idea.
Derek