Nook in the wild, specifically BN stores, for Read in Store.

[anamardoll]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

...oops

Understandable. Why the publishers don't expand it to "read one book for a hour every day from ANY wifi point" is beyond me. It'd be basically a library system where the user would get roped into buying on the grounds that, "Oh, you want to read MORE? Maybe you should buy the book, then. Or you can wait until tomorrow. Decisions, decisions...."

Having me drive down to the physical store every day doesn't make it a selling point for me, but I'm sure there are enough people close to a B&N that could do this every day, so why not.

[anamardoll]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Ah ha ...a solution ...bring your own

Haha, awesome idea. Alas, I need special ergonomic chairs made from carefully farmed cloud elementals and sewn with the silk of magic caterpillars.

[astrangerhere]

I have 2 local B&Ns (hooray living in a college epicenter!). The closest is 4 miles from my door and has chairs indoor and out, but only in the cafe area. The further one is 8 miles out and is one of the in-mall, two story affairs. They are littered with large couch chairs and tables. They also have the table seating indoor and out in the cafe area.

ETA:

I love to sit in bookstores and read. There are 3 independent bookshops in my town as well as the B&Ns (the Borders closed a few months ago). I can read just about anywhere, but I enjoy going into bookstores because I always encounter something new. My partner just wanders about aimlessly making lists of things she'd like the ebooks for and I just read.

[sonyreaderfan]

Is it a corporate or store decision to remove seatings?

The BN store nearest to where I live closed its Starbucks store and removed its chairs. They use to have a bench near by the magazine section and sofas. Now there are only 3 chairs. There were always stray books and magazines. It's cleaner now. There aren't a lot of stray magazines floating about.

I think seatings can lead to a store's detriment. The only surviving Borders in my area has a Seattle's Best cafe, and a huge section of tables and chairs, and sofas. The sad thing is because of that, people treat the Borders as a noncirculating library. There are stacks of books, graphic novels, and magazines piled up by the sofas. It's obvious that the patrons aren't interested in buying the books. Their actions have made the book selections worse since the books and magazines returned to the shelves are grubby and creased.

The BN I usually go to now is a new one attached to a mall. It has its own cafe and some chairs and benches near the windows for seating and browsing. It seems to have fairly well business transactions to allow seating and browsing. It's nice and clean. Interestingly, the flagship BN in LA, which is attached to a movie theater, and gets the most foot traffic I've ever seen (from movie goers), removed all their chairs except for four of them. So maybe it's up to each store's own policy to remove seatings as they see fit.

[Doug Pardee]

Originally Posted by sonyreaderfan

Is it a corporate or store decision to remove seatings?

It's up to the store management.