{"id":121,"date":"2006-05-31T08:29:30","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T15:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gen-o.com\/blog\/?p=121"},"modified":"2006-05-31T08:36:33","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T15:36:33","slug":"do-bookstores-have-a-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/31\/do-bookstores-have-a-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Bookstores Have a Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Collins asks this question in his <a href=\"http:\/\/villagevoice.com\/books\/0621,collins,73282,10.html\">Village Voice article<\/a>, which is essentially a review of Laura J. Miller&#8217;s new book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29240\/biblio\/0226525902 \">Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption<\/a><\/em>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Collins writes, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today&#8217;s field, though, may not be the future&#8217;s. Superstores live and die by generous zoning, massive inventory, co-op money, and deep discounts. Zoning laws may stiffen, return policies change, or price controls curtail loss-leader strategies. All these possibilities, however unlikely, have precedents; indeed, it was the owner of Nantucket Bookworks who last month spearheaded a chain store ban in that island&#8217;s downtown. Ultimately, though, the greatest vulnerability of chains may be their muscle-bound nature. If print-on-demand technology, though still poky and faintly disreputable, ever achieves the availability and quality of traditional books, the need for overstock returns, remainders, and huge retail spaces may evaporate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Collins asks this question in his Village Voice article, which is essentially a review of Laura J. Miller&#8217;s new book, Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption. Collins writes, Today&#8217;s field, though, may not be the future&#8217;s. Superstores live and die by generous zoning, massive inventory, co-op money, and deep discounts. Zoning laws [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}