/lit/ - Literature

>>18575537
these already exist. they're called subscription libraries and London Library is a great example. but they're very niche, few and far between, and will only become more so. how can you rationalize opening an even more niche offering of a waning medium when even a standard bookstore is lucky to survive without non-book gimmicks? the dark academia market that would go to it is even narrower than the arthoes, and no one else really needs or wants such a thing, especially professors who already have access to research libraries. besides, the subscription model really only works for other media because it's all digital. consider Netflix's low profile before they went digital.