{"id":3020,"date":"2010-12-07T08:57:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T15:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2010-12-07T09:06:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T16:06:54","slug":"carnac-the-magnificent-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/carnac-the-magnificent-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnac the Magnificent strikes again"},"content":{"rendered":"

I believe I have already established<\/a> that I am psychic<\/a>, but in case anyone missed it, let’s check out a different subheading of ‘nailed it’ from my original post:<\/p>\n

As electronic distribution (and web-based shopping) becomes more and more prevalent, and the percentage of electronic vs. analog versions of the same products continues to move toward electronic, brick-and-mortar stores will become progressively obsolete. Physical bookstores already account for less than a third of all book sales \u2014 in ten years Barnes and Noble will be the publishing equivalent of Sam Goody and Blockbuster.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

God, I’m so crazy. Where would I come up with something like that?<\/p>\n

Well, like every other ‘prediction’, I’m just creating publishing-industry ‘events’ by taking things — excuse me, that should read “easily observable, fairly recent, stupid fucking mistakes” — that already happened in the movie and music industries and coloring them with a publishing brush.<\/p>\n

For instance, in the case of that ‘prediction’ up above, I simply looked at the history of Musicland swallowing Sam Goody before it, too, succumbed to obsolescence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And I think to myself: “well, there are two major brick and mortar chain bookstores left in the US today — I expect we’ll see them go through similar\u00a0death throes.<\/p>\n

As my dad has been known to say, “Wellwhaddayafuckinknow<\/a>…”<\/p>\n

[…] a $960 million merger of Borders Group and its larger rival, Barnes & Noble […]\u00a0could help both companies pare back the number of stores they run, as well as cut costs in their back-office and distribution operations.<\/p>\n

But any deal would face a formidable hurdle: sales at the bookstores of both chains have declined and the competition on the digital front is intense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s not a ‘formidable hurdle’. That’s death.<\/p>\n

And don’t fucking tell me that chain bookstores are some kind of inevitable creature that must exist, like a gelatinous cube in a ten foot wide hallway — music stores and brick and mortar video rental chains were inevitable creatures too.<\/p>\n

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Preliminary graphic representation of the merger details. I call the piece 'Fighting over End-Cap Placement'.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I believe I have already established that I am psychic, but in case anyone missed it, let’s check out a different subheading of ‘nailed it’ from my original post: As electronic distribution (and web-based shopping) becomes more and more prevalent, and the percentage of electronic vs. analog versions of the same products continues to move … <\/p>\n

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