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Anon visits a bookstore
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this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2025
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I always have a book or author in mind when I go to a book store. I have walked past the displays anon mentions, but they are 'whats new' advertising so they are flashy and change often.
My complaint is that the types of books I like are given less and less shelf space every year. Romance and children's books have mostly replaced science fiction and fantasy. I guess the stores know what sells and stock it.
Presumably science fiction and fantasy readers are more likely to use e-books and audio-books over paper books and more likely to use online stores over brick and mortar than some other demographics.
I use audiobooks exclusively for my sci-fi and fantasy. There are so many great narrators in the genres that I can't imagine going back to my made-up voices for characters.
It is way harder to share e-books with friends. If you tend to pass books around, you still want paper.
I think it would help sell physical media if Brandon Sanderson didn't write 7 million words and sell a brick.
Books so large they literally fuck up your wrists from holding them for too long are certainly part of the reason physical books are on the decline in some fields.
This. I rarely use physical stores for my SciFi books, and only ever go after comics and stuff like that in hard copy. "Normal" books are easier for me to ingest digitally, either via text or audio.