Vice Chairman Steve Riggio offered up some hints of where the company's bookstores are headed.
More books go out of print each year than are published.
You will see a situation where you can have books beamed onto your device at the store. And forget about titles going out of print. Now things like 75 years' worth of Harper's articles can all be brought back. The site offers readers 100 free titles, with authors ranging from Willa Cather to Jonathan Swift. Other e-book titles currently run about 20 percent to 30 percent below the list price of their print counterparts.