From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-28 15:55, Lars Poulsen wrote:   
   > On 2025-12-28, Carlos E.R.  wrote:   
   >>>> When I visit Ottawa, I like to go to Chapters, now Indigo. I like to go   
   >>>> there and peruse English language books. Last time I went there and made   
   >>>> a list, then went to the counter and said I wanted to buy all those in   
   >>>> ebook form.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Wow.   
   >>>> Not possible, you have to do it on the web.   
   >>>> This is utterly stupid!   
   >>>>   
   >>>> It is the bookstore who does the work of showcasing the books and   
   >>>> convincing me to buy them, and then the money goes to another company   
   >>>> online?   
   >   
   > On 2025-12-28, Carlos E.R.  wrote:   
   >> When I buy Spanish books (I'm Spanish) I usually go to "Casa del Libro".   
   >> They have actual shops, and also a web site that sells the ebooks. A big   
   >> department store like "El Corte Ingles" also directs to that web when   
   >> buying ebooks.   
   >>   
   >> Otherwise, I have a Kobo and buy ebooks from them, which is much easier.   
   >>   
   >> But if I go to the "Casa del Libro" place and choose some books, I can   
   >> not go to the counter and have them downloaded or added to my account.   
   >> That's my complaint.   
   >   
   > Ah, so it is not the Independent Shop vs Amazon.   
   > It is the same company that refers your to their online branch?   
      
   Yes.   
      
   > But it would make sense for them to have a kiosk with a web browser   
   > so you could do it while in the store (and let the store get the credit   
   > in their accounting system).   
      
   Yes!   
      
      
   Once I got a book as a present (from El Corte Ingles). I wanted to   
   switch to the ebook instead, because I have no room for more books at   
   home. This is possible, because with that place it is customary to   
   include a ticket with no price included with the gifts, so that the   
   recipient can return or change the gift for something else. So I though:   
   easy, just change with the ebook.   
      
   Well, no. I got a full refund for the gifted book, and with that I had   
   to buy it again at the web site, which in fact redirected to the book   
   shop system above (Casa del Libro).   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
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