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Originally Posted by curtw
It seems to me that you need a pretty huge population center just to be able to stay open in the used book business these days. I made the rounds of the shops in Boston last year, and it's pretty clear that the market is collapsing even there.
I hope that some of the college towns are managing to find the support to keep going. Dawn Treader in Ann Arbor expanded from one location to two while I was in college, but has now retracted back to only the original shop.
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We have a book store in Houston that specializes in only murder mysteries. They've been there since before I was born, and they recently got the space next door that used to be a silver shop. If it can support that, it can support anything.