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Bad news for bookstores: instantly check Amazon prices with a cameraphone

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This is Barnes & Noble’s worst nightmare: a company called NeoMedia has new application for Nokia cameraphones called PaperClick that let’s you walk into any bookstore, take a picture of any book’s ISBN, and automatically get its pricing information from Amazon. It’s bad news for any bookstore, but something like this is especially troublesome for independent booksellers who are having a hard enough time competing with Amazon as it is. Will bookstores be the next places to ban cameraphones?

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