Local bookstores not worried about Amazon's e-book sales

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SALT LAKE CITY -- Amazon.com has made a lot of money selling books online. The retailer now says it's selling more e-books for their Kindle device than actual hardcover books. Should locally owned bookstore be worried?

First radio was supposed to annihilate newspapers, then video was going to kill the radio star, and now e-books may be the death of hardcover books

Betsy Burton, with The King's English bookstore, says that's all just a bunch of hype.

"Book-buyers, real readers, are going to pretty much stick with books, at least for the majority," she says. "I think that readers are very passionate about the physical book and care very deeply about it."

Burton says locally-owned bookstores will have the same role as always, which is controlling content. For example, identifying which books everyone should be reading.

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