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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 1060702" data-attributes="member: 2525">Thank you for the advice. While it is appreciated, I'm not actually looking for advice on running a game store, right now. It's still just a possibility. I am an attorney, and frankly that income will always bring in decent money, even if it becomes only a part time portion of my income. Running a game store would be for pleasure, and because it is desperately needed in my area (if I decide to do it). I merely wanted to get response on this (crazy) idea that books are an archaic medium of communication.The issue of large warehouse suppliers like Amazon is really a different issue, appropriate for another thread. However, in short, this problem CAN be solved by retailers, in the same manner every other industry with small retailers solves that problem. You just need a large alliance of stores capable of taking advantage of the bulk discounts. Distributors have you over a barrel when all you want is 6 copies of a book. However, when you are negotiating on behalf of the entire west coast of stores and need tens of thousands of copies, you have the distributor over a barrel. That will likely happen, eventually. I suppose that is a direction I could go in myself, since I have some knowledge of that field from other industries. However the startup costs are so high that the financing would have to be very hardcore (though not impossible to obtain, given current interest rates).But then, that isn't the business I had envisioned opening.Anyway, thanks for the thoughts.</blockquote>

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