TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » Fantastic Fiction http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 24 May 2013 00:53:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Pay to Browse: Why it will never work for bookstores http://www.teleread.com/bookstore/pay-to-browse-why-it-will-never-work-for-bookstores/ http://www.teleread.com/bookstore/pay-to-browse-why-it-will-never-work-for-bookstores/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:00:00 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=78903 TeleRead posted earlier about an idea that was floated by Victoria Barnsley, a HarperCollins CEO, during a recent NPR interview: the idea of charging people for the privilege of browsing in bookstores. The idea was that they’d pay to browse, and then go home and order online from the vendor of their choosing. The analogy [...]

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