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Originally Posted by DaleDe
I do think it would sell and yes even B&M bookstores could have them. That way users browsing in the store that are currently leaving and buying at home could buy on the spot if they found a book they liked. I also think that places that sell eBook readers such as Target, Walmart, etc. sell one reader to a customer but could get that customer back to the store with ongoing sales if they offered eBooks for the products they sell.
Dale
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
There's no reasons bookstores can't continue to exist, and even thrive... just not as huge, impersonal "open warehouses" of printed books. Bringing back the knowledgeable staff, there to help customers, to make recommendations, to help guide them in appropriate directions, would bring people back to bookstores in droves. It would be more like a book-centric lounge, and probably sell food, drinks and other things to enjoy as you visited.
And there's no reason the online sales can't be accomplished at the bookstores as well, either e-mailed to you, or downloaded into whatever storage medium you brought with you--and these days, the reality of having some kind of memory storage available on your person is becoming almost ubiquitous.
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I think that this is extremely "doable", but the biggest draw would be the "ambience". that is what would lure the customer in. make them feel comfy, at home, and they start buying things.
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Originally Posted by Harmon
Now, think about an ebook service of the same kind, called Readable. You sign up for $17.95 a month, get a "credit" or two against "purchases" of ebooks, have access to additional ebooks at a discounted price, with the option of higher priced plans that get you more credits. The discounted price is sometimes less than the cost of the credit, so you "buy" that ebook for the lower price, saving your credit to use for higer cost ebooks. You can read the ebook on whatever device you have registered at any particular time. So when you go from a Kindle to a SonyReader, you can still read your book.
I'd sign on to something like this. Would you?
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no