3 ms·

>>>I have a product for bookstores. Ouch. Drop it. They're all on their way to being gone in 3-5 years. Seriously. See: Tower Records/Blockbuster. Very, v

• cookiecaper 17y ago
  I don't know, I think that there's still a lot to be said for a physical book. Not everyone is going to be carrying around a Kindle. Blockbuster is obsoleted because there is a better mode of delivery for the same thing, and because Blockbuster was unwilling to adjust its policies or respond early enough to remain competitive. There is still a big market for physical books, I think, and there are a lot of independent bookstores that carry things besides the next Harry Potter installment or other mainstream things like that. Rare and used bookstores contain a lot of information that isn't even going to be digitized for a long, long time if ever, even if we assume that all of the book's potential perusers would rather have a digital edition. Big chains may start to suffer somewhat, but they're not the target anyway. And, even if bookstores do eventually disappear from under us, the product can be abstracted into another general retail niche pretty easily. It's not too specific -- it's actually rather general and common, but there is an untapped market there, I think.