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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
I still think the death of bookstores is over-exaggerated. With Waldenbooks, Borders and B.Dalton gone, who's left to sell books besides B&N?
That said, I would expect rather than the enormous size of B&N stores, we would see a reduction in size to more stores of the size that Waldenbooks and the like were before. I can't imagine why we would have stores the size of a Sears selling books...not enough to prosper, anyway.
But hey, B&N survived and they didn't, so what do I know? I would have thought the opposite - that the mega-size bookstore would die first and the smaller/more efficient ones would survive.
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It makes sense to think B&N would thrive in a world in which they are the only physical book store left. However, the price of their books, movies, and cds in the store are so just so much higher than amazon.com's because their cost structure is so inefficient by comparison. I only go to a B&N for a purchase if I absolutely have to have the book within 24 hrs. I have free 2 day shipping from Amazon.com.