Waterstone's UK to sell Sony Reader this autumn

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Originally Posted by Argel

Presumably the people who buy an ereader from Waterstones won't be buying their ebooks from Waterstones. In effect, they are selling their own customers - or at least part of their book-spend

Well, we don't know. Maybe they will introduce some sort of nice service that will compete with fictionwise or similar. Who knows? I don't think they are going to only sell ebook readers. Moreover, I believe it is a wise decision. The same strategy as Amazon.com. Waterstone and Amazon realised that ebooks are going to be our future and they start to sell ebook readers to keep their customers.

I must admit I never buy books in book shops. I buy 90% from Amazon, 9% from Amazon marketplace and 1% from ebay. Just yesterday I got the first 2 books Harry Potter from Amazon - special edition in clothbound hardback cover

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I've been sitting on this for months. The date I'd been told was April 14th, but it came and went ...

[BKeeper]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

yes, i know what you mean. it's really not the same, to see them in photos and even video. i can tell you though, since i've been playing with one for 2 days now, they are *better* in person.

i really don't see the point of having a sony on display, if it's not a working model. that's just stupid.

well, i will mention this at the MR apéro on friday. hopefully they are already planning this, since already they have made a deal with pixmania to sell them online, so they are expanding.

I agree that Fnac is by far the best retail option for Bookeen in central Europe. But I'm almost sure they (Fnac) feel like they need more content. (in french and other languages...). And I think we need a few more (2) years for that to happen. (sadly)

(Not many readers read mainly in English, so...)

they could however set up a booth at a centric fnac with demo units and have a service offering to load content for customers. (loading up DRM books it's not yet a one-click affair.)

But once they have content think l'fnac is their best bet.