“Make no mistake, the change iPad and his brothers from Amazon and Barnes and Noble, the way people read books.
Gone are the days of going to the bookstore and rummaging through the shelves only to find a book that is labeled as new, but looks like it has been read 100 times before.
Certainly the local library still has its merits.
They have good coffee, nice chairs to lounge around in, and they usually have a section with every magazine under the sun.
But it is changing the landscape of brick and mortar library? In my opinion, no, not really, but I think that some adjustment to the horizon.
The bookstore of the future will have to adapt to the new style “”iBooks Store”" business model.
Perhaps the future of libraries offer a Type 2 service levels.
Follow me on this for a second.
My wife loves to read.
However, she refuses to use an eBook reader.
Hardcover, are what she likes.
Says it gives her the feeling that you are “”getting what you paid for”" so to speak.
I can follow that.
There is something about holding a physical book in your hands.
Once you throw it on a shelf, to show everyone that it is actually finished a book like War and Peace is a great result.
I, on the other hand couldn’t care less about a physical book, and actually I would love to save the shelf space for more important things like my Star Wars collection.
I am a die technology, nature, to have my collection of books in a virtual form, is fine for me.
Plus I am able to find twice as many publications via online services than I have ever found in a physical book store.
So the future for Barnes and Noble, and what kind? It’s hard to imagine, but I see maybe a 2-pole approach to selling books.
Amazon already has its Kindle app for iPad and other eReaders, but this app lacks features in many ways.
Apple iBook their app, which is really nice, but the books are so expensive that the prices of rivals physical book, for me that is theft.
The bookstore of the future will need to please the techno savvy book reader as well as the old school types like my wife, who love the feeling of having an actual book in their hand.
But how will they achieve this? What if libraries offered an opportunity to sit in a chair nice to have a Colombian coffee, and browse an online database of books available for download directly to your eReader on the spot? I want to see these kind of services to the general public in libraries.
I think will allow them to compete with online services like Apple’s iBooks app, and Amazons kindle app for all eReaders.
Finding a middle way to sell books cheaply in a digital format and also the sale of physical books for the old schoolers out there will be the key to staying in business.
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