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Originally Posted by Fbone
This would require an extensive amount of market research. What may work in one locale will fail in another. Will people make a special stop to buy a book or two? What about areas where all the indie bookstores have gone out of business?
Or it could be retail in general. Too many stores and not enough people with excessive discretionary spending.
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This. Retail has long been in a state of flux. Having a location with the right customer mix near by is the key. In my neck of the woods, a number of indies that use to have a significant customer base have gone belly up over the years because either they moved to get a cheaper rent, and thus move away from their customer base, or their customer base moved away from them. I've seen it happen with businesses from book stores to bagel shops (I'm pretty sure the evil publishers didn't have anything to do with the bagel shops going belly up, though some here might disagree). I've seen indie book stores come and go, well before B&N moved into the area, much less Amazon.