The American Book Store-y

The American Book Store-y 10,600 brick and mortar book stores left in the U.S. 2,000 book stores have almost closed since 2000. Montana is the state with the most bookstores per capita. New Jersey. has the least. BORDERS 600 Borders locations closed after the company declared bankruptcy in 2007 <500 (BARNES&NOBLE Number of locations Barnes & Noble predicts it will have open in 10 years: 44% 19% 4% of consumer book ..happened in large bookstore chains, and only... ..happened in independent bookstores. sales in 2012 happened online... 22% decline in print book sales since 2008. Moral of the Store-y: Support your local book store! Be a part of keeping book stores around for years to come. Sources: OEDB.org, Publishers Weekly, business.highbeam.com, Digital Book World, idealog.com brought to you by Libboo where talented authors get discovered www.libboo.com