大家都看過那個電影 Youve got mail 電子情書
小書店備連鎖書店擠出市場, (好向觀眾比較記得那個愛情故事,不太記得電影背後談到的商業結構)
現在連連鎖店或獨資書店都因租約到期不再續約或關掉在曼哈頓的店
McNally想在曼哈頓下城找個地方開第二家店時
發現找不到,一個小小店面居然一個月要4萬元(美金)
,因房租月來越高,導致零售商比薩店,花店都被破搬出罵哈頓
When Sarah McNally, the owner of McNally Jackson bookstore in Lower Manhattan, set out to open a second location, she went to a neighborhood with a sterling literary reputation, the home turf of writers from Edgar Allan Poe to Nora Ephron: the Upper West Side.
She was stopped by the skyscraper-high rents.
“They were unsustainable,” Ms. McNally said. “Small spaces for $40,000 or more each month. It was so disheartening.”
Rising rents in Manhattan have forced out many retailers, from pizza joints to flower shops. But the rapidly escalating cost of doing business there is also driving out bookstores, threatening the city’s sense of self as the center of the literary universe, the home of the publishing industry and a place that lures and nurtures authors and avid readers.
“Sometimes I feel as if I’m working in a field that’s disappearing right under my feet,” said the biographer and historian Robert Caro, who is a lifelong New Yorker.
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