/lit/ - Literature

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Bookstores are suffering from online retailers and the general primacy of visual mediums. They're "crashing" in the United States because of this, not because of the books they're selling. In other places, where Amazon isn't as easy, other online retailers are doing the same but it's not as dire. The notion it's because of the books themselves is an incorrect assessment. Going on to Amazon right now, the best-sellers are Barack Obama's memoir, Ready Player Two, and kids' books; these are books placed at the forefront of first-hand bookstores and marketed in their newsletters and websites.

That bookshops and the majority of readers are treated with such contempt won't change literature. Bookshops are trying to make the best of a bad situation, which is having to deal with the biggest retailer in its strongest area.