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The demise of the secondhand bookshop

Posted by asteroid
Tags: retail, secondhand, business, stores.book, author.alexander larman, source.thecritic
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-demise-of-the-second-hand-bookshop

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Authors
Alexander Larman, Rev Steve Morris, Stephen Parkinson, Robert Thicknesse, Robin Ashenden, John Rogan, Graham Stewart, Mary Eberstadt, Ben Woodfinden, John Self, Jeremy Black, Josephine Bartosch
Published
Aug 11 2020
Word count
1845 words

2 comments

  1. Akir
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    There actually have been quite a few secondhand bookstores around me. The most obvious ones are the ones that show up in malls and deal exclusively in used books. But then there are also specialty...

    There actually have been quite a few secondhand bookstores around me. The most obvious ones are the ones that show up in malls and deal exclusively in used books. But then there are also specialty stores that deal in additional products like games, music, and A/V and music production equipment. I've even got a few Book-Off locations where I can get Japanese goods.

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  2. horrible
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    Didn't small-scale book shops spring back after this, when online retailers essentially wiped out the large brick-and-mortar bookstores that had previously suffocated the small shops? At least in...

    Yet by the time that I visited it as a student two decades ago, it was clearly on its last legs. Its stock was overpriced and tired; there were countless examples of dull,

    Didn't small-scale book shops spring back after this, when online retailers essentially wiped out the large brick-and-mortar bookstores that had previously suffocated the small shops? At least in the US, this article feels like it's a decade too late.

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