Bookstores Can Survive With Hybrid Model

While online stores and eBooks are making things more difficult for physical bookstores, it seems that there may still be a future for independent bookstores in the right location with the right approach. Foyles bookshop in London is seeing growth these days from selling print books.

The London Evening Standard reports the last year: “Sales at the shop – which has traded from its flagship Charing Cross Road store since 1906 – rose nearly 10 per cent to give the company its first pre-tax profit since the Nineties.”

According to the Standard, “The Foyles figures show that like for like sales for the year ending June 30 were up 9.7