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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Similar misteps on the pbook side continue to today, where they *still* have a substandard online operation twenty years after Amazon launched and well over a year after announcing a relaunch for *last* spring.
Their position is untenable because they made it untenable.
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I honestly still can't picture how they can match Amazon on the pbook side. They have to pay rent and pay cashiers. They cannot do so and win a price war with Amazon's warehouses.
They can match the online price with their own site, which they often do, but then you end up with the weird situation of B&N selling the same book for 2 very different prices, one online, one in store, as they currently do. Or splitting the difference with a consistent price.
I just don't see how the big bookstore can make it. And for all the talk about the resurgence of indies, I wish I'd actually get so see it in person some day instead of just reading about it.