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リアルな本屋でkindleを売る、ということは抵抗があるだろう。

Kindle Paperwhite（ニューモデル） 新品価格 ￥9,980から (2013/11/9 22:21時点)

敵に塩を送るみたいなことになる。
ただ、リアルな紙の本がほしいというニーズもあるはず。
そうしたニーズには良い場所なのだが、余程のメリットがないと売ろうとは思わないだろう。
BBCより。
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24868137
Amazon e-book offer riles independent bookshop owners

Bookshop owners have hit back at an initiative by Amazon to sell its Kindle e-book reader in independent shops.

The Amazon Source programme, launching first in the US, would let bookshops sell the devices and receive a small cut of e-book sales thereafter.

But reaction has been hostile - one US bookseller described it as "inviting hungry foxes into the henhouse".

Amazon said bookshops "should be striving to offer customers what they want".

Announcing the initiative earlier this week the company said: "With Amazon Source, customers don't have to choose between e-books and their favourite neighbourhood bookstore - they can have both."

However, it appeared bookshop owners were not convinced. New York-based publisher Melville House gathered opinions, and posted the frosty responses on its website.

"Hmmm, let's see," wrote Carole Horne from Harvard Book Store in Massachusetts.

"We sell Kindles for essentially no profit, the new Kindle customer is in our store where they can browse and discover books, the new Kindle customer can then check the price on Amazon and order the e-book.

"We make a little on their e-book purchases, but then lose them as a customer completely after two years. Doesn't sound like such a great partnership to me."

Staff at Skylight Books in California said it was "a Trojan Horse-style attempt to gain access to our customers".
Anger

Amazon has not yet announced whether it has plans to extend the scheme to the UK.

However, retailer Waterstones began selling the Kindle device in its stores earlier this year, despite managing director James Daunt previously describing Amazon as a "ruthless, money-making devil".

Mr Daunt admitted that readers were migrating to digital platforms, but that it was beyond the company's capabilities to develop and manufacture its own device.

But whether independent bookshops will welcome the same logic is as yet unclear.