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Re:Amazon opens first bricks-and-mortar bookstore by OrwellianChild on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @07:37PM (#10503796)
Nope. Real-world share-ability and resale is a pretty unsolved problem...
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Re:Amazon opens first bricks-and-mortar bookstore by paulcole on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @07:44PM (#10503821)
The latter problem seems to be solving itself.

Used bookshops are closing and selling used books online is getting less and less profitable.

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Re:Amazon opens first bricks-and-mortar bookstore by tehstone8 on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @08:09PM (#10503914)
I suspect ebooks will replace the mass market pulp sort of books while higher quality first-run paperback and hardback books will persist. With a much smaller resale market and books worth owning for more reasons than just one or two read-throughs the whole market looks different.
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Re:Amazon opens first bricks-and-mortar bookstore by toomuchtodo on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @08:20PM (#10503959)
Yep. And since DRM can trivially be stripped off of ebooks, I'll be able to carry entire libraries in my pocket on a 1TB microSD card.
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