Tag Archives: bookstores

Another big seller bites the dust in California

By Steve Weber | Published: November 13, 2007

There’s a going-out-of-business sale at Bogey’s Books in Davis, California. The shop has an inventory of 30,000 volumes, mostly used. Gee, this is starting to sound familiar: Brick-and-mortar bookseller goes broke and blames the Internet and the chains. “We pushed $450,000 a year in gross sales in 1997-98,” owner Mark Nemmers said. “The net was [...]

Does competition help or hurt sellers of used books?

By Steve Weber | Published: June 26, 2007

If you ran the only used bookstore in town, how would you feel if another one opened for business this summer? That’s exactly what’s happening in Omaha, Nebraska. According to this article, the bookstore owners both believe that having two used bookstores in town will generate more than double the sales volume of the original [...]

Eeking out a profit at brick-and-mortar bookstores

By Steve Weber | Published: June 18, 2007

Here’s a good follow-up to the recent post about opening brick-and-mortar bookstores. The San Francisco Chronicle points to Oakland’s Diesel bookstore as an example of “what it takes to make a small bookstore succeed in today’s era of chain megastores.” Independent bookstores have been squeezed over the past 15 years by a combination of this [...]

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