Are these "500,000 books" the same out-of-copyright crap they 9and everyone else) promote elsewhere? Because that's not going to be very interesting to brick-and-mortar bookstores. Nobody's going to make any money on those hundred-year-old books. Bear in mind that for every "Life On the Mississippi" or "Emma" there are a thousand "General Pinklebottom's Wanderings In The Desert, 1811-1812".

This is what the Espresso Book Machine was made for! Yes, Even General Pinklebottom -- which I would totally read, by the by.

If it's an e-book, why would you bother going to the bookstore at all?

(I'm a fan of bookstores myself.)