Thread: National Post: The end of bookstores?
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Old 06-15-2011, 08:55 PM   #42
fjtorres
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My favorite bookstore was MOONSTONE BOOKCELLARS in Washington, DC. Nothing but SF&Fantasy; pretty much everything in print at the time, including UK editions.
Long gone before Amazon came about.
The decline of pbook retail shelf space goes back decades.

Now, B&M Bookstores aren't going away soon...
...but they will slowly wither away as the ratio of ebook to pbook sales grows over the next couple of decades and the remaining market migrates even further to online retailers. Store ambiance and staff savvy notwithstanding.
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