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What I worry about, when I think about the future of bookstores, isn't the competition from ebooks but the general decline in readers.
Much of what you describe sounds great from a marketing standpoint, and that's been my theme in many areas, that a person of outstanding ability in the technical arena (for a bookshop I guess that would be a bibliophile-if that term isn't restricted to pbooks) often can't run a successful business.
I do think bookstores of the future will sell ebooks as well as pbooks, and they could well evolve as you describe-but I suspect that their number will also decline as many of the current stores fail to make 'the switch'.
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