Re:What Went Wrong at Borders
by danielford on Thursday January 13, 2011 @11:16AM
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I suspect local used book stores are next. As a greater proportion of book purchases become e-books fewer physical books will be available for resale to used book stores. Yes, there are people who would never touch an e-book, but even a slight decrease in their available inventory is going to have an impact.
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Re:What Went Wrong at Borders
by rtghnthyjnm on Thursday January 13, 2011 @11:40AM
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Local bookstores seem to be booming.
Amazon is taking out their competitors (B+N, Borders, Waterstones) while offering them a global marketplace to sell used books online.
The ones that have put any effort into a pleasant environment, local books, reading events etc are doing better than they have in years. Remember HN are not typical of the general population when it comes to book buying or ebook reading.
IMO the problem won't be incoming inventory, it'll be outgoing sales. Inventory won't be a problem because fewer people will be buying new physical books, plus a certain amount of people will replace their physical books with the digital counterpart.