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The future of bookstores is the key to understanding the future of publishing

January 23, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 127 Comments

One of the subjects we have been probing for a long time is the inevitable impact that increased purchasing of books online would have on the shelf space at retail and what that would mean to trade publishers. (You’ll see that this speech that is well more than a decade old also says publishers are […]

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