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0 pointsJackFr3y ago0 comments

Good record stores outlasted Tower Records. What failed were record stores which were basically Tower records, only watered down weaker versions.

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pessimizer3y ago

Good bookstores didn't outlast Borders/Barnes & Noble/Books-a-Million etc. (or at least 90% of them didn't.) It was really annoying when people were mourning the destruction of 15 year old book warehouses by Amazon, when I was still mourning 100 year old bookstores.

MomoXenosaga3y ago

I don't go to bookshops anymore. Books are just a commodity now, they push the latest product for a few weeks and move on the next. It is all part of the hype machine. After a month or so it's like the book never existed at all- it had it's five minutes of fame.

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