I'm picturing kiosks which would display "cover" art and pages of selected books on some kind of rotating basis, stationed around the store, probably magnified so one could see them from a bit of a distance.
Writing workshops would be cool, too. Yes, you can do them online, but sometimes things are a bit more fun in person.
I think independent local bookstores with large digital inventories could become part of the decentralization of the publishing/selling process. They would succeed for somewhat different reasons than the large bookstores are successful now, but I think they could be just as successful.
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