1.0 link 153692 <![CDATA[What If the Book Business Collapses?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hugh-mcguire/what-if-the-book-business_b_153692.html Question: What would happen if, tomorrow, every publisher, and every book store, went out of business? What would you do?

The Big Stores

About fifteen years ago I walked into my first of the new breed of big book stores, Chapters in Toronto. I thought to myself: how can the book business support such a huge store? How can book selling pay for all this real estate? How can there be so many books?

At first I was encouraged by these stores. The...

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