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It's far too early to tell whether drones will ever be a viable delivery system, either generally or for specific instances. But don't write them off either. It's nice to imagine my letterbox being replaced with a drone delivery dock perhaps broadcasting its identification. It may well come to nothing, but it wouldn't be the first idea to be ridiculed only to later become ubiquitous.
Amazon and others are trying to innovate and are on the lookout to buy companies that are innovating. There are ways to at least potentially avoid the innovator's dilemma which B&N did not try. Amazon does seem to be trying at least some of them. Last edited by darryl; 09-04-2018 at 09:40 PM. |
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Unfortunately, I can see many drones being waylaid and their packages stolen. In my opinion, it won't be technology that stops the drone delivery program, but human cussedness. Shari |
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It'll happen right about the same time that we have the year of the Linux desktop (another phenomena that's been 'right around the corner' for a decade or so).
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Like how people follow the delivery trucks around and steal packages from porches now? Thieves are going to thieve. It's a cost of doing business. I don't really envision drone thievery being any more prevalent than the current package thievery is.
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Though I don't think drone delivery will become the norm, one point in their favor is that they could theoretically leave packages in your back yard, whereas most delivery trucks leave a package on your front porch. So hey, drone delivery could be a little more secure, I guess.
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I normally checked the SF&F section, then the History and various non fiction categories. I almost never found the history books that I wanted as ebooks at B&N, but a surprising number of SF&F as well. It simply could have been that B&N (or the publishers) were a bit slow at adding those books to the ebook store. As I said, it was a number of years ago, just after the Nook first came out.
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The differences between Amazon and B&N's list of such mainstream books should have been vanishingly small. If you have a paper book available in the SF/F section of B&N, it's likely a Big 5 book, especially if you're talking nearly ten years ago when the Nook was first released. |
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