tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18526487.post6369130559432516115..comments2023-11-05T03:53:08.166-06:00Comments on TPMtoday: Harry Potter and the Disappearing ChannelsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18526487.post-20839305310084987942007-05-11T13:46:00.000-05:002007-05-11T13:46:00.000-05:00I'm with you -- I have never bought a book from Wa...I'm with you -- I have never bought a book from Wal-Mart. But they can hurt the bookstores in the same way they hurt the record stores -- cherry-picking the best-sellers.<BR/><BR/>It wouldn't surprise me if those 200-300 titles sell as much as all the other books combined in the chain bookstores. If Wal-Mart takes a good portion of those sales away (or forces the chains to forego profits by dropping their prices to similar levels), then they have hurt the chains badly.<BR/><BR/>Look at what taking away the flat-panel sales did to the electronics channel.Bob Houkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16982822149146722008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18526487.post-67904642209926236522007-05-11T09:34:00.000-05:002007-05-11T09:34:00.000-05:00"Competition from discounters such as Wal-Mart Sto..."Competition from discounters such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which can afford to slash prices on books, has squeezed profits at Barnes & Noble and Borders, which have responded with their own discounts."<BR/><BR/>I don't see how Wal-Mart can hurt these bookstores much. I never buy books at Wal-Mart because they offer only maybe 200-300 titles in just a few genres, none of which are at all interesting to me. B&N and Borders have probably tens of thousands of titles, in many dozens of genres.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com