Bookish Topic Tuesday – Bookstores a dying breed?

Bookish Topic Tuesday

Bookstores a dying breed?

With the advent of ebooks and of course online retailers like Amazon, Bookdepository, etc. physical bookstores have been in decline. We’ll that’s the general feeling, I don’t know if that’s completely true. Here in Australia, unfortunately the latest data on the number of ‘book retailers’ is back from 2003-2004 which is quite disappointing. Apparently over 1500 businesses sold books, and of that only 561 of them were bookshops. It would be so interesting to see these numbers now, so shame on you ABS! (I have actually enquired about this, because I’m really interested). I know in Australia we were rocked a few years ago with the news that Borders and Angus and Robertson were going to close, that really seemed like the beginning of the end for book stores, but those remaining have stuck it out.