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>A better metric Metric of what? As far as I can tell "bookstores per capita" is a pretty good metric to measure bookstores per capita. If this is a good proxy
by josu 10y ago
>A better metric
Metric of what? As far as I can tell "bookstores per capita" is a pretty good metric to measure bookstores per capita. If this is a good proxy for something else, that I don't know, but it's certainly interesting.
- jrapdx3 10y agoI think what was meant is that a giant bookstore like Powell's sells many times the number of books compared to small "hole in the wall" shops. I happen to live in Portland not far from Powell's main store, which is huge and busy all the time. Portland also has numerous smaller shops which serve different niches and out of the way locations. I think the best metric would be number of city-wide annual book sales per capita. (r = total_annual_book_sales/population)
- ethbro 10y ago> If this is a good proxy for something else, that I don't know, but it's certainly interesting. I'd daresay most people who are upvoting this are finding it interesting as a proxy for something.