No, the person I originally replied to described the alleged “slow and firm downward trend” of bookstores since e-commerce came around.
However, after an initial decline due to competition from e-commerce, independent bookstores have been growing since 2009.
The person who replied to me would have been correct if they were posting their comment in the mid-2000s, but their statement has not been true since 2009.
I provided sources and data to back myself up and nobody arguing against my point has.
I have not at any point changed the argument I am making nor have I moved any goal posts. The entirety of my argument is that in recent
years independent booksellers have been on an upward trend. I never made any claim about their sales compared to Amazon. I never claimed that the industry never faced decline. I am merely fact checking the original statement that the industry is allegedly in a downward trend.
> Please note that I never claimed they had “Amazon numbers.” I never claimed that they were as prevalent as they were pre-e-commerce.
You seem to be arguing different points here (despite the quotes). They are talking about the bookstores returning to their own pre-Amazon numbers.