On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:28:07PM -0400, Adam Maas wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:48 PM, frank theriault > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This was taken at one link of Canada's largest chain of booksellers, > > Indigo Books. They're horrible places, not just for what they are, > > but for their predatory practices - many small bookshops have closed > > down due to them. It's getting harder and harder to go into a musty > > old place that ~smells~ of books, because they just aren't around any > > more. > > You mean the predatory practice of stocking a lot of books? Pricing is My friend Amanda had a really nice small bookshop (Valencia Street Books in SF) which went out of business about a year ago. One of the issues is that bookstores, big and small, make most of their money on a small portion of their stock. The big chains can sell the best sellers for much less than the small shops can. So people looking for the bestsellers would go to the big stores, and then wonder why the small shops that carried a more eclectic selection of other books went out of business. To bring this back on topic, we could compare what is happening with bookstores to what is happening with camera stores. It's not a big problem if you're happy buying things online, and don't mind not being able to try something that isn't a best seller (or Canikon) before you buy it. -- The fastest way to get your question answered on the net is to post the wrong answer. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
