How This Bookstore Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.พ. 2019
- Even while we spend more of our days staring at screens and do more of our shopping on Amazon, book sales are actually rising at independent bookstores. Here's how Brooklyn shop 'Books Are Magic' is making it work.
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It’s my dream to own my own book store and I hope that I can own one one day
Me too. I'm still in high school but its never too early to start saving!
Mine too. It's my 💖
My dreams also to have a own bookshop
If books are magic, that must make you an your crew wizards! Please stay strong!
I know of a small bookstore in Holland, Michigan that was around when I was a child in the 1960's and it is still thriving. The recession a few years ago closed a larger book store in a nearby mall, but it didn't touch the little store in downtown Holland, which is now doing better than the mall. It shows that people still like shopping for books in the middle of an old fashioned friendly small town!
Any other reasons hw it has been doing well
Its probably a niche bookstore with rarer books than the big one. Just a guess.
As long as they don't get hit with a 72% rent increase...: It's what is killing a lot of them... The trick with bookstores is not to depend on car traffic: This is something you want to WALK to easily from doing something else... You do not specifically drive to a bookstore. That kind of walkable real estate is getting scarcer and more expensive, usually because exotic restaurants can pull in more margins... Bookstores should absolutely get a pass and subsidies by the government for the contribution they bring relative to a restaurant... See my description of the phenomenon here: th-cam.com/video/kkXBmXOrGzk/w-d-xo.html
Maybe they own the buidling. That is a large part of the cost.
We've come full circle in many cities: the malls and big chain book stores are going defunct & indie book stores have a chance again (if they can successfully with Amazon).
Great to hear book stores are doing well, in online era and amazon as well, yes they have a good future all being well.
Thank you for keeping bookstores alive!
The only books I buy at Amazon are the free e-books that they offer from time to time. Other than that, I love visiting my local used book stores. There are 6 of them within a 10-20 minute driving distance from where I live. And all the funding goes back to the libraries in the area.
I've found some great gems at them too. I got most of the Wheel of Time series in hardback 1st ed 1st print for 30 bucks.
Hello Emma, you are doing great for humanity. Would love to open a store like this in India, Delhi. Thank you for inspiring.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ this is an absolutely incredible idea!!!!!!!!!
One hundred percent respect from ... Denmark! Keep up the good work! Will be visiting soon ... 🙂
Would love to visit someday. I'm not too far away.
Love this. My sister and I also started an independent bookstore in Amsterdam. Bijlmer Bookstore. We also have TH-cam we will have more videos soon
One day I want to be a colector of books🇹🇱
I would love to go to a local independent bookstore, but it seems Barnes and Nobles is the closest one.
So, to thrive in the age of Amazon what we all need are investors?
Well done guys! Even my Chinese Business Graduates found your clip inspiring!
i could savoring it forever
NICE!
How can they possibly be profitabl e? Commercial rent in NYC is insane and they sell a low margin, low turnover product. Yet they are "thriving," whatever that might mean.
You one of those bezos boys?
@@flimsifer Not at all. All I asked was how they could be profitable. But they must be, since they've added a second location since this video appeared three years ago. Good luck to them.
Philippines needs independent book stores 😭
Even fully booked is struggling to survive. Filipinos just dont read enough to get independent book stores
@@LoLo-ue5xe Yup, reading(collecting) is an expensive hobby.
@@RamRammyRam eating fastfood is also expensive but those places are always packed in the ph. The people are just not interested in books
@@LoLo-ue5xe Even people who are interested in books don't usually collect physical copies. I say that if every reader here can afford books, then book businesses would surely thrive. Bookstores targets a niche market after all and that market sadly can't afford to continue that collecting lifestyle.
@@RamRammyRam im not sure about that my friend. Torrent has been around a long time for digital copies.
When I travel to other countries like new zealand (very small population) and thailand (not an english speaking country), bookstores seem to still do well. Maybe theyve taken a hit, but theyre not closing right and left or scaling down substantially like what is happening to bookstores in the ph.
Address please
I'm 56. I love the romantic quality of a physical book but I must admit I consume all of my reading via e books...so much better!!!
I like Barnes & Noble as well as independent book stores. I pray Books r Magic is strong. Not Amazon who have killed so many mom & pop stores
Bookstores are dying. Some anecdotal evidence to the contrary doesn’t change that fact.
Lifehacker is dying :-(
I can literally smell this girl through the phone
I wonder if she sells books by authors who are conservative and have Donald Trump books
Lol
What the fuck?
Please support your local bookstores (old or new) as much as you can. Happy reading...🤓📔📕📖📗📘📙📚📓📚📚📚📚📚