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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Smaller is never "more flexible" in a bookshop--smaller means less space, less activity, less range of selection. Several small bookshops in Berkeley--a college town--within blocks of the university have shut down in the last few years.
They can't compete with Amazon.
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It's a mistake for a small book shop to even
attempt to compete with Amazon. What the small shop
can do - and still do very successfully - is specialise in one particular field, and be more knowledgeable in that field than the Amazon's of this world can ever hope to be. I have a friend who runs a very successful SF book shop here in the UK on that basis.