Bookstores like Yogurt Shops

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Author Message   Hen81 Regular Poster Username: Hen81 Post Number: 71 Registered: 09-2007 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 08:33 pm:        Remember the boom in Yogurt shops? Where are the big Yogurt chains now? What happened? The problem is that yogurt was a product that could be sold anywhere as long as there was room enough for a machine. Hence this is one of the problems with bookstores. It is not only the fall in reading rates but also the saturation of outlets selling books. Grocery stores, discount stores and warehouse clubs have small bookstore sized sections selling popular books. This peels off enough business to sink many bookstores. Combine the “everywhere” availability with a drop in pleasure reading and you have a recipe for a long term death spiral. Even B&N may be fighting a long term losing battle. If shareholder return isn’t high enough, then it’s over. Now the real problem is that the supply of books is booming. If B&N and Borders is gone, we’re left with small sections next to appliances and the internet. That’s a hard world for authors to think about but give it ten years. The question is how do we stop this from happening? http://DTPollard.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LepUS7wFjt4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifafZEK3h8o   Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 6925 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 02:38 pm:        Now the real problem is that the supply of books is booming. If B&N and Borders is gone, we’re left with small sections next to appliances and the internet. That’s a hard world for authors to think about but give it ten years. The question is how do we stop this from happening? (You can't stop this from happening. Years ago, if you wanted comic books, you had to go to a confectionary or a drug store or a bus station that sold them. Now you got to go to a comic shop. I can recall you used to be able to buy books in department stores--right next to the stoves and the refrigerators. What do you care. You just want to sell books, don't you? You ain't got to stand there in the appliance stores. There will always be books. Maybe there ain't no yogurt stores, but they still selling pelnty of yogurt. They will still have books.