Computers and the Internet are the wave of the future. It is becoming difficult to find someone who has not at least heard of the Internet. The Internet has moved into many aspects of our lives and is positioned to penetrate even further.
Many people already shop on the Internet for clothing, records, and paper copies of books.
There are already a few sites where one may download a full novel off the Internet. The day is not far away where this will be a common practice and not the exception. The customer looks through all the samples on the shelves and decides which books they want to buy. They tell the clerk which ones they want and by the time they pay, the books have been printed and bound in the back room. It saves space in the bookstore, so they can offer a larger range of books for sell and thereby, better serve their customers.