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Originally Posted by dhbailey
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.
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Just to make the startup even more costly, I think the trick would be a whole new concept of the bookstore. Bookstores have already evolved. Take the idea of a book-related social space and run with it. Set the kiosks up in a Starbuck's-like setting with promotional materials, sample chapters, readings, signings, etc.
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Originally Posted by dhbailey
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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That's where it becomes a numbers game. The major publishers made a great show of being behind the launch of the Reader, because Sony painted them a pretty picture of protected content sold through a single source. Now Sony has to prove out the numbers--number of Readers in the wild and number of sales through CONNECT.