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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
I misunderstood then. You said that when you lose access to the bookstore (bookstore goes belly up), that the book clubs that previously went to a bookstore are now migrating to a coffee shop. At least how I interpreted it. In areas where there never has been bookstores a coffee shop would not do either due to size. Libraries do fill that void in more rural areas.
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No, I don't believe that I said that. I was saying that book clubs were more likely to go to coffee shops than libraries. My SIL belongs to a book club and as far as I know, there isn't a book store within 20 miles of her and hasn't been for over 20 years. They don't meet in the library, they rotate between restaurants. It's a small town, but one big enough to have several restaurants, plus the usual fast food places at the highway exit and have a two block downtown.
For the most part, I was talking in the context of B&N and how such a bookstore would be able to compete with online book stores. I suspect in some of the more rural areas, the local bookstore is Walmart.