How bookshops survived Amazon

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Mar 2021
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Financial Times
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What: bookshops fight back


Why it is important: one of the reasons for department stores abandoning book selling was the competition. The competitive landscape is now changing.


After the consolidation of major bookshop chains, the growth of e-books seems also to have reached a plateau. Independent bookshops which favour a local approach are thriving. Perhaps this is a moment for department stores to reconsider entering this market, albeit in a different way.


How bookshops survived the Amazon onslaught