Comment by startupsfail
10 days ago
Yes, this is true. There used to be a lot of local book stores, for example. Amazon optimized that away, while ruining social fabric.
10 days ago
Yes, this is true. There used to be a lot of local book stores, for example. Amazon optimized that away, while ruining social fabric.
Independent book stores are booming in quantity since the initial Internet crash.
Be careful about making narratives that don’t line up with industry data.
There’s a lot of brick and mortar retail going on. It just doesn’t look like the overbuilt mall infrastructure of the 1970s-1980s.
Two decades ago, in the Bay Area we used to have a lot of books stores, specialized, chains, children's, grade school, college slugbooks, etc. Places like Fry's had a coffee and a book store inside. The population grew, number of book stores went down to near zero.
RIP literacy in America. We hardly knew ye.