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Originally Posted by SeaKing
As an aside, the small book sellers are now Walmart, Target, my local CVS, my local Inglis grocery store. There is no way that B&N can downsize quickly enough with all their obligations to compete with those stores.
One last question. What does the last big predator fish in the fish tank eat?
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Good point.
The dept store/pharmacy/supermarket book depts *are* Kiosk businesses; but instead of free-standing in malls, they are based inside the multipurpose business. That sell commodities rather than specialty goods.
Hmm, that needs some thinking on.
"Bestsellers" are supposed to be traffic draws but if they're available everywhere doesn't each title become a commodity unto itself? If you're going to buy the newest Patterson book, it doesn't matter much *where* you get it; you get it the first place you find it at a good-enough price. That is commodity-like...
Something to chew on for later.
As to the predator thing: markets aren't neatly bounded like fish tanks. They overlap and overflow, they grow and shrink... They change.
When a "predator" outgrows its environment or its environment shrinks, it can and should look for new hunting grounds. Sometimes it even means abandoning its original niche instead of expanding it.
Survival comes first, second, and last.