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Bookstore Will Shrink to the Size of Starbucks
Stephen Gordon: Ebooks are coming of age – for many reasons. You can keep your library in your pocket. You can annotate and share your thoughts within social networks. Writers can publish more directly to their audience. Once completed, the unit cost of each ebook sold is essentially $0. Those savings can (and sometimes are) [...]
Things You Learn Running a Bookstore
People are getting rid of bookshelves. Treat the money you budgeted for shelving as found money. Go to garage sales and cruise the curbs. While you’re drafting that business plan, cut your projected profits in half. People are getting rid of bookshelves. If someone comes in and asks where to find the historical fiction, they’re [...]
