I'm glad that companies selling books online realize it's not the same as wandering through a book store.
How Barnes & Noble went from villain to hero
By Elizabeth A. Harris
.Buying a book you’re looking for online is easy. You search. You click. You buy. What’s lost in that process are the accidental finds, the book you pick up in a store because of its cover, a paperback you see on a stroll through the thriller section.
No one has quite figured out how to replicate that kind of incidental discovery online. It makes bookstores hugely important not only for readers but also for all but the biggest-name writers, as well as for agents and publishers of all sizes.
www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/arts/barnes-noble-bookstores.html
theworldnews.net/bd-news/how-barnes-noble-went-from-villain-to-hero
jacklimpert.com/2022/04/saving-bookstores/