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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
certainly this is not a solution that will appeal to everyone. and i see no reason why it should have to ...
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zelda you are absolutely correct. People in the US (and I'm one of them) have to get over the idea that it's just like us everywhere. Your note on European small bookstores being the "center" of a small town, which may or may not have wifi, is right on.
To some of the naysayers, visit another country, especially go outside the big cities, and it's like your in another world. Heck, even in the bigger cities, the "living experiences" are way different than what is found in the US.
I think these bookstores in France will set a trend, and it will catch on, even in the US. I wouldn't mind going down to a local bookstore, browsing, finding an interesting book, maybe being able to read a chapter or a longer synopsis than found on the dust jacket, and then "somehow" getting it on my eReader after paying the bookstore owner, even if that bookstore is a B&N, and not a Mom&Pop, as there are so few of them left in the US.