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Re:Plano man keeping Blockbuster alive by JackFr on Monday July 11, 2022 @03:33PM (#32060694)
Good record stores outlasted Tower Records. What failed were record stores which were basically Tower records, only watered down weaker versions.
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Re:Plano man keeping Blockbuster alive by pessimizer on Monday July 11, 2022 @04:24PM (#32061319)
Good bookstores didn't outlast Borders/Barnes & Noble/Books-a-Million etc. (or at least 90% of them didn't.) It was really annoying when people were mourning the destruction of 15 year old book warehouses by Amazon, when I was still mourning 100 year old bookstores.
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Re:Plano man keeping Blockbuster alive by MomoXenosaga on Monday July 11, 2022 @10:22PM (#32064821)
I don't go to bookshops anymore. Books are just a commodity now, they push the latest product for a few weeks and move on the next. It is all part of the hype machine. After a month or so it's like the book never existed at all- it had it's five minutes of fame.
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