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Originally Posted by weateallthepies
No DRM, No geographical restrictions, same prices for all customers, clean layout, well tagged library.
I'm not fussy or anything.  |
Yup all of that, plus... I'd also like physical book stores to adapt, so they have comfortable lounges, paper reference copies of the most popular books, coffee, cake, good lighting, nice ambience, smells nice.
The kind of place that is relaxing to go to, like a mini-library, where you can flick through paper copies and read about upcoming releases, then buy an ebook. They'd host book of the month meetings and different kinds of book clubs, say one a week for sci-fi fans to discuss their recent reads, one for horror fans etc. They would have free wifi as well, so you get people lurking enjoying that.
Either bookstores adapt in that way or we will see massive amounts of stores closing in the next 10-20 years as people just buy online.