Bookstore chains are crashing and burning everywhere. These guys lasted a long time...of course, they probably bought out a ton of mom-pop stores along the way and now they’re both gone, but still...
Ping!
That shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone. With the Kindle and other forms of being able to read books those who sell hard copy books have seen sales diminish. My wife is an avid reader as I am and we used to have stacks of books. Now we have very few as we have gone to Kindle. Saved us a bundle on not only books but places to store them.
Book stores, libraries, newspapers, and magazines as we knew them when we grew up will all either evolve to something completely different or disappear.
Book stores are dying.
Family Christian went to a non-profit model a few years ago, I think.
I do hope they survive in some fashion....although the one nearest me is pretty weak when it comes to customer service.
I don’t know how a bookstore survives anymore. So much is available online or digitally.
Never heard of them.
What with being able to buy stuff online instead of at overpriced Christian bookstores, I’m not surprised.