Computer bookstores in GTA

William Park opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Sun Aug 14 15:19:11 UTC 2005


On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 09:54:52AM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> The "sell via Internet" model allows APress to sell books with smaller
> production runs (e.g. - recent works on zsh, Lisp) where they can get
> low wastage out of the fact that the inventory doesn't get pushed 2000
> ways (e.g.  - copies going to each "brick store" outlet of Barnes &
> Noble, Borders, Chapters), but can rather stay in a very few central
> locations.

Mail order has its advanatages.  But, I suspect most books are still
sold in-store.  My personal feeling is that if books come down to $20
level, then more books will be sold.  $80 for books, that I will read
only once and only few pages will be of use to me, is a bit too much.

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