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Originally Posted by BillSmithBooks
The bookstore gets a sale with no shipping or shelving or return costs. Huge savings on rent because the stores are physically much smaller. Plus the bookstore can position itself as "We have every book in the world -- in stock, in your hands in minutes."
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Not only that, this model would enable the "bookstore boutique" to survive in smaller communities where the major chain stores cannot survive. I can see these smaller stores becoming as commonplace as McDs...well not quite, but you get the idea. (Or maybe some brilliant exec at McDs, Dunkin Donuts, Starbucks or another large chain would add on the the "bookstore" model to an existing food/cafe chain).
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This would be the death of bookstores. The point of a B&M store is that they have a large selection available. If a machine can print any book at all, why go to a bookstore to use it, you wouldn't see a Starbucks inside a bookstore, you'd see a print on demand machine in the corner of a Starbucks.