Following on from the last post about Ryanair, and given the huge problems Waterstone's face trying to implement their own distribution serivce (known as the hub), I wonder how a Ryanair bookchain would operate?
Given they get passengers to do most of the work (print out tickets, carry their own luggage onto the plane, clear up their rubbish on the plane), I assume that Ryanbooks would operate in a similar way.
Or may be it's the publishers that will be doing all the running.
Any thoughts (especially from Harry) would be most welcome!
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Surely Amazon is exactly the Ryanair of bookshops? Cutting away the expensive bits like actual shops, booksellers to guide you through the process and maybe even supply a cup of coffee, and a what-you-see-is-what-you-pay pricing policy with no sneaky hidden extras cranking up what seemed at first like a bargain price — not to mention a ruthless policy of world domination.
However, they still depend on the postal service to get the physical book to you. With the news that Amazon, one of the biggest customers of the Royal Mail, are withdrawing their custom because of the recent postal strikes, I wonder what the next move will be. Will we have to find our own way to an automated warehouse in the middle of nowhere, swipe a credit-card and grab the book from a hole in a wall? It could happen.
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