A sign of the times?

[nwhyte]

Just looked in on the American Bookstore (or "International Bookstore", as it has rebranded itself) on the Rechter Wienzeile here in Vienna. On previous visits I've found it a very pleasant place to browse, but came away with nothing this time; the SF section seems to be less than half its former size, with chick-lit filling much of the gap

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[redfiona99]

Which one is it, because I have vague (very vague) memories of there always being an English-language bookshop in Vienna called something like that, but that would have been 17 years ago, or thereabouts, so it can't the one you're talking about.

[nwhyte]

I meant the one here; I think they have been around for a good long time so may well be the same ones! But they have a number of other branches now.

[slovobooks]

According to an article in the Irish Times recently, between 9%-12% of book sales are now made online. It didn't quote the source of this statistic, but one hopes that the IT has fact-checkers...