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How to Survive in the Age of Amazon by Janaka Stucky - 0 views

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  • Unless bookstores can not only acknowledge their role as beacons of culture, but really embrace that role and market themselves as such—as long as they try in vain to compete with one of the world’s largest retailers at its own game—they will slowly lose ground as they steadily morph into increasingly bizarre hybrids of book-music stores, bookstore-cafes, and bookstore–tapas restaurants, until they simply become businesses that sell the latest quirky breakout novel on the side to customers who’d rather pay $15 for a sandwich and a cup of coffee than for a book.
  • Here in the Boston area, two bookstores have managed to not only survive but thrive: the Harvard Bookstore (not affiliated with Harvard University) in Cambridge and Brookline Booksmith in Brookline.
  • they also sell a great selection of used titles at lower prices.
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  • robust websites that offer options
  • interesting and revelatory staff selections
  • host over 100 readings a year
  • A well-read staff that can anticipate their customers’ interests are one of the greatest assets any bookstore can have.
  • This is where the almighty in-store event comes into play, and it’s really at the heart of what distinguishes a bookstore from an online retailer, what makes a bookstore a center for culture in its community, unlike a Walgreens.
  • Poetry, the least profitable and most esoteric of all the genres, can save the bookstore.
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The Man Who Took on Amazon and Saved a Bookstore - Forbes - 0 views

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  • double digit sales growth month by month over the last year.
  • Imagine for a moment what it would feel like if people walked into your company and used the lobby to call your competitors and buy their products. That’s standard consumer behavior in a bookstore.
  • To truly compete, he would also have to solve consumer’s expectations for instant gratification and delivery.
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  • Essentially, Jeff installed a printing press to close the inventory gap with Amazon.  The Espresso Book Machine sits in the middle of Harvard Book Store like a hi-tech visitor to an earlier era.
  • can print nearly five million titles including Google Books that are in the public domain, as well as out of print titles. We’re talking beautiful, perfect bound paperbacks indistinguishable from books produced by major publishing houses.
  • can print that book for you in approximately four minutes.
  • get any book delivered the same day by an eco-friendly Metroped “pedal-truck,” or a bicycle, as I like to call them.
  • fanatical attention to customer service
  • Ultimately the bookstore exists to serve a community
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eBook lending: Libraries go digital - CNN.com - 0 views

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shared by whoelscher on 27 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • EBooks accounted for 6.4% of all publishing in 2010, according to the American Association of Publishers, and 114 million electronic books were sold last year.
  • EBook lending is growing at a fast pace at the New York Public Library. The number of downloads of electronic books on the library's website grew by 81% in the last 12 months
  • why would someone pay for an eBook if they can download it free from a library's website?
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  • Several publishing companies were contacted for this story but none returned messages seeking comment.
  • libraries make up 10% of all book sales in the United States each year
  • Libraries across the country recently developed the ability to make their eBook downloads compatible with the Kindle, Amazon.com's eReader.
  • She worries that libraries will lose their place in society as borrowing eBooks grows in popularity. "I think it will be sad. I mean there's just something about smelling the books and the whole experience," Salzano said. "It's like a feeling of calm and peace and you don't really get that anymore. You can't just sit and read a book."
  • there are commercial bookstores; more than 16,000.
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