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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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BN could potentially make big stores work, Waterstones is doing it in the UK with the same core product. What BN isn't doing, which WS did, is to allow those stores to adapt to the community.
Walking in to any given BN feels about the same. Small layout changes will occur based on the physical layout of the store, but special displays will be essentially the same. The stores get hit with large quantities of books that those working in them -know- will not sell in their area. And there is often little they can actually do about it for a few months at the least.
I don't hold out much hope that BN will be around in 10 or 15 years. If they are the bookspace will likely be even more minimal than it is now.