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Independent bookstores stay afloat if they own their building, usually. At least the ones I know of that have remained open are in a building owned by the owne
by bombcar 1y ago
Independent bookstores stay afloat if they own their building, usually.
At least the ones I know of that have remained open are in a building owned by the owner (so they don't have to pay rent).
- badpun 1y agoA business that is only reasonably profitable if it doesn't have to pay rent is not really profitable. If the owner owns the building, he might as well rent out the place and get majority of income without doing any work. The bookstore is just a hobby on top of rental income, which he chooses to plow into his own bookstore.
- bombcar 1y agoThe dirty secret of small businesses is that a vast number of them are not really profitable, because something is not counted on the books - either rent, or labor, or other things.