Comments on: Should Amazon Go Brick and Mortar? http://dearauthor.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdearauthor.com%2Fwordpress%2F2008%2F06%2F17%2Fshould-amazon-go-brick-and-mortar%2F&seed_title=Should+Amazon+Go+Brick+and+Mortar%3F Book reviews, industry news, and commentary from a reader's point of view Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:44:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Ann Bruce http://dearauthor.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdearauthor.com%2Fwordpress%2F2008%2F06%2F17%2Fshould-amazon-go-brick-and-mortar%2F&seed_title=Should+Amazon+Go+Brick+and+Mortar%3F/comment-page-1/#comment-165069 Ann Bruce Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:08:59 +0000 http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2008/06/17/should-amazon-go-brick-and-mortar/#comment-165069 Hell, no! Going brick and mortar would be a waste of capital that can be spent making the butt-ugly Kindle as sexy as the Sony e-Reader. If that happens (and DRM is abolished...and there was one format to rule 'em all), even I might drink the Kindle Kool-Aid. Hell, no!

Going brick and mortar would be a waste of capital that can be spent making the butt-ugly Kindle as sexy as the Sony e-Reader. If that happens (and DRM is abolished…and there was one format to rule ‘em all), even I might drink the Kindle Kool-Aid.

]]> By: DS http://dearauthor.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdearauthor.com%2Fwordpress%2F2008%2F06%2F17%2Fshould-amazon-go-brick-and-mortar%2F&seed_title=Should+Amazon+Go+Brick+and+Mortar%3F/comment-page-1/#comment-165002 DS Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:37:11 +0000 http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2008/06/17/should-amazon-go-brick-and-mortar/#comment-165002 Definitely not. I think it would be too big a cultural shift for Amazon. Selling books and selling widgets on line are about the same. Selling books on line and selling books off line are very different. I still haven't forgiven Borders for buying Waldenbooks and shutting down all of the local ones. I loved the $5 coupons I used to get from Waldens in their purchasing program. It took Borders forever to figure out that readers love those type of incentives. By the time Borders started their program I was hooked on on-line buying. Definitely not. I think it would be too big a cultural shift for Amazon. Selling books and selling widgets on line are about the same. Selling books on line and selling books off line are very different.

I still haven’t forgiven Borders for buying Waldenbooks and shutting down all of the local ones. I loved the $5 coupons I used to get from Waldens in their purchasing program. It took Borders forever to figure out that readers love those type of incentives. By the time Borders started their program I was hooked on on-line buying.

]]> By: ジェーン(Jān) http://dearauthor.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdearauthor.com%2Fwordpress%2F2008%2F06%2F17%2Fshould-amazon-go-brick-and-mortar%2F&seed_title=Should+Amazon+Go+Brick+and+Mortar%3F/comment-page-1/#comment-164946 ジェーン(Jān) Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:47:51 +0000 http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2008/06/17/should-amazon-go-brick-and-mortar/#comment-164946 OK, I'm not in the publishing business in any way, but even I can see this would be a really stupid move. Amazon should stick with what it knows best and what made it the powerhouse that it is. To buy into the brick and mortar side of things would be like beating a team at sports and then taking up their strategy. OK, I’m not in the publishing business in any way, but even I can see this would be a really stupid move. Amazon should stick with what it knows best and what made it the powerhouse that it is. To buy into the brick and mortar side of things would be like beating a team at sports and then taking up their strategy.

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