Is a used book store a good business?

some local artists can put their work up and sell it there and you get commission

@SW-User One idea I have is to give a discount to those that return a book on their next purchase. Letting me sell the same books over and over.

Thank you Gun

@Fernie Thanks, I thought about that, it's a shame too.

@GunSmoke9 It's an awful shame but it is a fact.

@Fernie There were a few great book stores when I lived in Arizona. Don't know if they are still there.

@GunSmoke9 I have friends in Cochise AZ and they tell me they now have to travel miles to a UBS because the local ones have closed.😭

Could be true, for all I know. They're still pretty fun to visit. If they've been around for a few decades, you can find a lot of weird shit in them, including things that are just not available on Amazon and probably never will be. They remain actually useful sometimes, while places like Barnes & Noble serve no real purpose except as a catalog to browse and compile a shopping list for later purchase on the Internet, where anything you saw on the shelves can almost invariably be found for half the price.

@Keraunos I remember good used book stores when I lived in Arizona. You're right, many books won't make it to the internet.

@GunSmoke9 but there aren't enough to pay the rent in a retail space