Begun Quote by Jason Epstein

When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.

— Irvine Welsh

We're conditioned to let businesses fail, regardless of how much we like them. We believe that if the market doesn't want that bookstore to…

— Andrew Yang

We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.

— Roy Blount, Jr

I don't think malls are going to go away. People still need somewhere to go, but they do have to evolve.

— Angela Ahrendts

There is something more profound than just real estate because the decline of retail is social. People don't go in small stores - that…

— Emi Fontana

“The cultural critic Leon Wieseltier angrily noted, “The streets of American cities are haunted by the ghosts of bookstores and record stores, which have…

— Jonathan Taplin

Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.

— Erik Brynjolfsson

As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're…

— Karen Kingsbury

Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.

— Jason Epstein

Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.

— Julia Glass

Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

— John Updike

“From Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet Story, re: the travel book boom of the 1970s Surprisingly, none of the new developments in travel publishing…

— Tony Wheeler