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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
And I have to say ; when I went two days ago to my neighborhood bookshop to buy a gift for a friend and discovered a previously unpublished book by Boris Vian which I couldn't resist buying for myself, I really would have loved to be able to pay for it at the register and download the digital version at home, rather than buy yet another paper book, as I had promised myself I wouldn't anymore !
So what do you think ? How would you like to go browse the selection at your neighborhood bookshop, discuss favourite authors with the bookseller, and then buy the digital editions directly there ?
Read the full article on ActuaLitté.com (in french). Thanks to Nate the Great for spotting it. |
Now, that's an interesting twist. Essentially, printed editions are used to boost sales of digital editions. Baen, Doctorow and others, up until recently(if they ever gave up on the idea), tried to use ebooks to sell pbooks.
I am skeptical, though. The model is cumbersome, payment is done in store (why not online, if I am going to download the title anyway), then ebook is retrieved from the Net.
They should try to pack ebooks on (very small, hence very cheap) SD's and sell those. Or be ready to put the title on customer's SD, upon payment. For the concept to work, delivery of the sold goods has to be instantaneous.