Independent vs. Chain Bookstores

Maria Fitzsimmons has hardly seen it. She desperately screams articles about the latest pop princess through the entertainment weekly. Her head is almost in the magazine, and it almost immerses a big diet cola. She felt comfortably at the Trident Bookstore bar on 338 Newbury Street. As her books and magazines grew bigger, her concern became bigger. Fitzsimons said: "I hope that this place should not be closed so soon, there are few bookstore cafes in Boston.

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Do people like these shops? Because it is a bookstore, I think so. I like a bookstore. Unfortunately, for Borders, they do not like them more to buy books from chain stores at higher costs - people can go to an independent bookstore and do so. If they want the best price and choice, they will go to the Amazon. Now they can go directly to the Amazon. I wondered myself when I passed through the store. Is this the first step in Amazon's retail industry? What if the same goal as the website is to create "The Everything Store" - the actual store version. Do you have a first step again? Of course, what Amazon is doing at the grocery shows this. But will one day Amazon's bookstore become a more popular Amazon store?

In the United States, the number of independent bookstores has increased by 27% since 2009. As the New York Times reported this fall, according to the Census Bureau last year's new book included a chain store, online retailers like Amazon are the first increase since last year, up 6% did. . It is a year. "The murderer of an independent bookstore that was first condemned is a large supermarket such as Barnes and Noble, Borders and Books-a-million, these stores are ten times larger than traditional independent stores. Borders increased from 21 stores in 1992 to 256 stores in 1997 and when it went bankrupt later it went over 400 stores.Please come to BestBuys, Michael, Bed, Bath, Beyonds These are currently all in the US It is available in the suburban retail park of