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Maybe just under-exploited? Isaac Send a noteboard - 18/02/2011 12:31:26 AM
If you're going to start a business I'ld reccomend you look at something with a bigger market. While this sort of store can survive there isnt a lot of possibility for growth.


There is a market for this stuff, and it seems like it should be able to be profitably tapped and grown, I was saying above that I think the SFF crowd has expanded beyond the poor young male student demographic but I don't really know, it seems that it should have. I can't see any obvious reason a chain store aimed at this market shouldn't be viable, but I've never heard of one.
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Would you shop at a small bookstore that sells only SciFi/Fantasy books? Dark Knight - 17/02/2011 09:39:39 PM 732 Views
They exist. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 17/02/2011 09:48:55 PM 217 Views
Do you have an example? *NM* Dark Knight - 17/02/2011 09:54:27 PM 215 Views
There is at least one in Edinburgh Camilla - 17/02/2011 10:16:45 PM 508 Views
What's the selection like? *NM* Dark Knight - 17/02/2011 10:26:42 PM 275 Views
Not bad Camilla - 17/02/2011 10:28:08 PM 524 Views
This is the one in Edinburgh. Nebhead - 17/02/2011 10:23:20 PM 631 Views
Not to nitpick, but... Legolas - 17/02/2011 10:26:07 PM 497 Views
Virtually every comic book store in the country is essentially "only fantasy/sci-fi". Tom - 17/02/2011 10:38:55 PM 456 Views
Yes I would shop at such a store/Will it survive? The answer is no. *NM* Roland00 - 17/02/2011 09:51:09 PM 221 Views
But I would thank you for shopping anyways *NM* Dark Knight - 17/02/2011 09:55:03 PM 223 Views
Think of it like this Roland00 - 18/02/2011 12:26:35 AM 597 Views
Note I want you to know I ain't trying to stomp on your dream. *NM* Roland00 - 18/02/2011 12:27:13 AM 233 Views
Yeh, I would. Craig - 17/02/2011 10:07:44 PM 610 Views
I would shop in place like that. Bergioyn - 17/02/2011 10:12:37 PM 475 Views
sometimes but not always random thoughts - 17/02/2011 10:19:57 PM 494 Views
Bakka Phoenix Books. Chas - 17/02/2011 10:27:56 PM 696 Views
You'd probably want to add in RPGs and some SFF merchandise Isaac - 17/02/2011 10:35:10 PM 580 Views
I'm not sure if that stuff in your sig has been there long, but... Legolas - 17/02/2011 10:45:20 PM 461 Views
Yeah, it should read Landsraad Isaac - 17/02/2011 11:18:31 PM 490 Views
I was thinking the same thing. I would like to sell some swords and things like that *NM* Dark Knight - 17/02/2011 10:49:23 PM 216 Views
I gather those tend to sell poorly Isaac - 18/02/2011 12:11:09 AM 470 Views
hold Magic the Gathering tournamnets and call it a comic book store *NM* random thoughts - 18/02/2011 04:04:27 PM 208 Views
Could it survive? Of course. Would I shop there? Not in a million years. *NM* Tom - 17/02/2011 10:37:03 PM 213 Views
Lol why not? *NM* Dark Knight - 17/02/2011 10:48:10 PM 212 Views
I don't read much sci-fi or fantasy. Tom - 17/02/2011 11:05:55 PM 504 Views
THIS. Also... Urza - 17/02/2011 11:22:40 PM 531 Views
Maybe just under-exploited? Isaac - 18/02/2011 12:31:26 AM 770 Views
Add roleplaying, toys, comics, movie merch and you'd hardly get me outta there *NM* ironclad - 17/02/2011 10:52:04 PM 218 Views
Add the entire nonfiction genre and i would never leave. Avendesora - 18/02/2011 12:52:14 AM 522 Views
Maybe add a couple of other genres to it. Literature, mystery &suspence, historical fiction at least Tashmere - 18/02/2011 02:28:20 AM 443 Views
there's one in berkeley called other change of hobbit temeraire - 18/02/2011 05:51:52 AM 473 Views
Re: Would you shop at a small bookstore that sells only SciFi/Fantasy books? Druid - 18/02/2011 06:20:21 AM 645 Views
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