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My current buying process
Walk around bookstore with my iphone and the barcode scanner ready, browse the books and see something i like scan it and move on to next book, maybe 4 or 5 books a time(once every couple of weeks)
Then I go home and TRY to buy the ebooks from various sites. Money for retailer £0 money for publisher,author etc in some cases they get some money but in some cases its not available as an ebook or it has ridiculous price so I look elsewhere.
OR in some fantasy world....
In the bookstore I could walk up to a till with my list and pay even the Paperback equivalent and give them my email address, then walk home and turn on my email to see secure download link with DRM if it HAS to have it. and download books to my reader.
Job done publishing and retail industry saved. oh and if in store they could sell me a drink in a paper cup, a la starbucks whilst I browse then MORE profit for the retailer, and maybe have a display of books that catch my eye so i buy one of those for my wife...
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