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How do they survive I wonder

• chrisseaton 5y ago
  People travel from all over the world to visit, and they have a major festival there.
• lbriner 5y ago
  Pile them high! Remember that if you have unusual books, you mostly have to sell in a shop otherwise those books don't get discovered. If you are just selling the latest best-seller, Amazon will mostly win on price. I went there last month and bought a 2nd edition of the Art of Electronics, something I wanted but couldn't find for a reasonable price. It was about £60 on Amazon and £15 in Hay.
  • gen220 5y ago
    No affiliation, just a happy customer, but I’d recommend you check out biblio.com if you’re interested in reasonably priced, rare books. Plenty of respectable antiquarian bookstores will list their inventory on biblio, in addition to selling them in meatspace. Allows you to support your local bookstore, but retain an Amazon like convenience. And the people running the site seem to care about keeping local bookshops sustainable businesses, fwiw. For your search: https://biblio.co.uk/search.php?stage=1&title=art+of+electronics&pageper=20&country=2&omit_product_types=bp,bd,ns&strip_common=1&program=1005&order=price_ship_usasc https://biblio.co.uk/search.php?stage=1&title=art+of+electro...
• seanmcdirmid 5y ago
  According to the wiki article, they used to have more bookstores than today, so many didn’t survive (changing to antique sales). It might be a case of experience it now before it’s gone.