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Originally Posted by luqmaninbmore
They are doing something wrong then. Red Emma's in Baltimore is doing well and they are definitely a community gathering place... they have a very progressive/alternative/anarchist/diy slant, they are a worker-owned collective, and their food is fair trade/vegetarian/vegan. |
I don't think you can compare the costs of running a small Commie bookstore co-op, that accepts PayPal donations, to a 4-floor behemoth in a prime, affluent Manhattan location.
That B&N is/was enormous. (And
busy.)
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Originally Posted by luqmaninbmore
I don't think bookstores (especially used ones) are going away any time soon.
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Yeah, they will. They'll end up like record stores -- you'll wake up one morning and the once ubiquitous (in many sizes) will be few and far between, highly specialized, and with even worse margins than before.
Used bookstores may stick around for awhile, but as fewer and fewer paper books get made, the less there will be for the used stores to sell, no?
