[tt] Entrepreneur: 10 Businesses Facing Extinction in 10 Years

[Allen Smith]

In message <Pine.NEB.4.64.0710060621210.15076 at panix2.panix.com> (on 6
October 2007 06:24:22 -0400), checker at panix.com (Premise Checker) wrote:
>10 Businesses Facing Extinction in 10 Years
>http://www.entrepreneur.com/extinction/index.html
>http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/printthis/184288.html

>Used bookstores: They've been closing fast, and those that are
>still open are relying on what's making them obsolete: the
>internet. A used bookstore used to be the place to find that
>beloved, out-of-print children's book you used to read 17 times a
>day until your little sister flushed it down the toilet. Now you
>just type that title in a search engine and order it within
>minutes.
>Odds of survival in 10 years: Some of them will still be eking out
>an existence, but the handwriting is on the wall.

Umm... used bookstores are doing business online (see
http://www.abebooks.com); indeed, I have an aunt who, until she got
interested in going back into the oil business (she and her husband are
Ph.D.s in chemistry with expertise in areas like drilling mud
composition...), owned 3 used bookstores, 1 of which was online-only (a
warehouse, basically), but the other two were physical shops (partially as a
_source_ of books!). One interesting change is that the larger ones are
doing _both_ new _and_ used books, like Powell's.

      -Allen

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