The liquidation last year of the American chain Borders, the competition from e-books and online retail, and the increasing amount of floor space devoted to lifestyle products at big bookstore chains like Chapters also bode ill for the future of bookselling.
When the digital dust settles from the battle over e-book pricing between Amazon, Apple (AAPL), publishers and the Justice Department, much of it will end up in the aisles of small independent booksellers like Green Apple Books in San Francisco.
Don Grover, the boss of Dymocks, doesn’t like fiction. Never has, never will. The retailer, not an avid reader in general, enjoys the occasional biography and history book, ”apart from anything that’s work-related, which probably makes up most of my reading”.
Flipping through some books spread on a table in the middle of Old Firehouse Books in Old Town on Tuesday, Rebekah Behr said she was shopping for Christmas presents at a local bookstore mainly for one reason: “This is my stepson’s favorite store,” she said.
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