I wasn't the previous poster. There are two or three coffee stands in the town I am from. These are 20 square feet. There are also McDonald's drive throughs.

I wasn't the previous poster. There are two or three coffee stands in the town I am from. These are 20 square feet. There are also McDonald's drive throughs. (McDonald's has won nearly every blind taste test.) By going to a shop I am choosing ambiance in addition to conveniece. They offer little else over any other method of getting coffee (which all generally offer just convenience). I have no interest in sitting in a bookstore. There cannot be a 20 square foot bookstore that offers only convenience. So yes, I buy my books online. (Actually on a Kindle.) Bookstores are going out of business because the ambiance they are selling to compete with coffee shops comes with much greater costs. Guys like the first poster are not putting them out of business. The internet already has.