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My ideal situation wouldn't rely on bookstores -- you could just as easily log into the service from your home computer.
My idea of having it in bookstores is that if the bookstores can actually make money from the e-books (as opposed to just making money from selling the reader) they would promote things more heavily, and the buying power of Border's and Barnes&Noble would provide much more incentive for the publishers to make their backlists as well as ALL their new releases available.
Currently Border's and Barnes&Noble are most likely putting pressure on the publishers NOT to bring out e-book editions since they won't make any money from them and will actually lose money from those of us who will buy only electronic versions.
But if there's a profit, corporations will support it, thus the idea of having the kiosk in the stores themselves and letting them make the same profit margin they currently make from paper sales.
It's obvious that Sony Connect isn't able to wield the same clout that Border's and Barnes&Noble can wield to force publishers to do what they want.
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