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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Yes, but you have to go there to get the physical product. I don't think that's the same thing. You can say the same thing about bottled water... people buy what comes out of the tap in a bottle... I'm not sure why.
But, look at physical DVD rental places. They are dropping like flies. It is due to Netflix and digital on-demand movie rentals and sales.
If people can get the SAME product without going to a store they will. Look at digital banking... I bank online. I pretty much never go to the bank anymore... there is no need. If the bank put a kiosk that allowed me to access my account over there web interface... would I go to the bank to do that. No....
I think ebooks sustaining a physical store is a pipe dream. If the p-books aren't sustaining the store it will go out of business.
BOb
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DVD has a different problem. People have been building libraries of DVD's for 10+ years. With the difficult economic times, they tend to rewatch what they've got, and not buy more. Those who only watch a movie once are basically a rental market anyway, whether it's Blockbuster (rental store) or Netflix (rental by mail). The big money was in the the first 5-10 years, getting people to convert from larger, lower quality tapes to DVDs. That is pretty much over now, as virtually all popular titles (and a large number of cult/fan titles have already been converted).
Hollywood dreams of everybody rolling their DVDs into a ball and pitching them out a window, and rebuying their entire library over again in Blue-Ray, but that doesn't seem to be happening yet....