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Smaller bookstores are actually doing pretty okay these days: https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/02/18/indie-bookstores-comeback https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/202
by legitster 4y ago
Smaller bookstores are actually doing pretty okay these days: https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/02/18/indie-bookstores-comeback https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/02/18/indie-bookstores-com...
Mostly because Amazon decimated corporate chains, which freed up more market for independent stores.
- ghaff 4y agoThough independents are still a pretty niche business. Around where I am there are certainly far fewer of them than there were before the big chains became dominant.
- legitster 4y agoI don't know. I'm in a pretty redneck county and even here there are dozen independent bookstores. Most of them are tied to a coffeeshop though. But if you check your local map you might be surprised.
- pessimizer 4y agoEven the article said there were 10-15 bookstores in a place that had 35 of them in the 70s.