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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Won't work in areas that don't have bookstores in the first place. The county I live in doesn't have a single dedicated bookstore. The only open to public book clubs are organized by and in the library. We only have one third of the population classified as living in urban areas, two thirds in rural. The whole US has 80% of the population living in urban areas that take up only 3% of the land. So who is in the majority? Ask random people, they will live in a major city. Travel the US randomly, and you are hard pressed to find a bookstore within close distance. My closest B&N is over 40 miles away. No thank you, too far.
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Total US population is north of 330million. 20% of that is 66Million, more than a lot of first world countries. (UK, for one.) And that doesn't count the millions living in small towns and cities without bookstores.
Easily forgotten by many but they still matter.
(Wal-Mart built their company serving them.)
There are far more communities than bookstores:
There are over 35,000 towns in the US...
https://www.reference.com/geography/...b3be08284e6a62
...and less than 22,000 bookstores (concentrated in the bigger cities):
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...res-in-the-us/
As a matter of fact, only 4000 of those communities are bigger than 10,000 inhabitants.
And, let's face it, bookstores need more than 10,000 inhabitants to survive, which is why the stores are concentrated in the really big cities.