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Originally Posted by Fbone
We would have such limited availability people may think Patterson, Roberts and King are the only authors writing books.
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I actually wonder if that is not the real cause (or a big factor) to start with. You have a few authors completely dominating book sales. So there is little incentive for any store to carry anything else, all people want to read is what's being pushed by a handful of authors.
I mean, heck, 20 years ago, you'd find a bigger selection of books in a supermarket than you'd find today in a big bookstore (okay, not quite, but I would buy a lot of obscure SF/Fantasy books from Publix of all places, which is a chain grocery store in Florida. It wasn't even a big store)
I think that's also what hurt Blockbuster. Since the movie industry has moved to a blockbuster only model, with no room for anything else, you can get all the hits you want in a vending machine.
Blockbusters just suck up the air out of the rest of the market.