Really.<\/p>\n
Of course, Borders and Barnes & Noble drove out the smaller bookstores, though I was never really familiar with the romanticized mom & pop store (except for the local Christian bookstore that shut down some years ago) and only ever new the mall stores like B. Dalton. \u00a0But it occurs to me that it\u2019s not just new bookstores that have closed down, but that the four used bookstores nearest me a decade ago have all now closed down. <\/p>\n
Is it because Half Price books (the Big Box of used bookstores) came to town? \u00a0(They\u2019re the only ones left around here now.) \u00a0Are people buying used books online every bit as much as new books? \u00a0Have e-readers become enough of the bookselling and bookowning landscape that it has impacted the used book market? \u00a0Has there been some kind of cultural shift that means that people just don\u2019t want used books any longer?<\/p>\n
Anyway \u2014 I couldn\u2019t find anything when I hunted around online. \u00a0Any thoughts?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Really. Of course, Borders and Barnes & Noble drove out the smaller bookstores, though I was never really familiar with the romanticized mom & pop store (except for the local Christian bookstore that shut down some years ago) and only ever new the mall stores like B. Dalton. \u00a0But it occurs to me that it\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[114,113],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bookstores","tag-e-commerce"],"yoast_head":"\n