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I dont need access to every book. I want to know what the best books are. Amazon initially did great at this. But now there is so much crap it is becoming diffi

I dont need access to every book. I want to know what the best books are. Amazon initially did great at this. But now there is so much crap it is becoming difficult to tell what is good. If a store can actually develop expertise in its inventory and make suggestions that are actually good, and create a great experience around its merchandise then they can thrive. I doubt most will be able to execute on this.

Mediterraneo10 7y ago
> I dont need access to every book. I want to know what the best books are. Reading is such a personal thing that the “best books” for you are probably not the best books for other people. When tastes are so disparate, when the cultural space has fragmented so greatly, then a shop cannot succeed by stocking just a certain set of books. They need an ability to sell to everyone of whatever taste, and online bookshops have an advantage there that malls don’t.
ajmurmann 7y ago
The physical Amazon book stores are incredible in that regard. Every section has nothing but the top books. I recently was in the market for books to learn Japanese. The tiny Amazon store had the top three books. The huge and famous Powell's in Portland had obscure books (some of the were cool and are now on my "once I got the basics down"-list), but none of the top books you'd expect to find.