For some years now, you’ve owned a small specialty bookshop in a college town. You sell some textbooks but mainly cater to a broader customer base. Your store always stocks the latest fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books. Recent numbers show a steep decline in sales, including of books that would normally be considered best sellers. You suspect this is because of the growing popularity of e-books and e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook. Some of your friends say it’s time to close up because your market is dying. Is it hopeless, or is there a business strategy that might yet save the store?

There is a hope and there is a business strategy that might yet save the store " book selling strategy relied upon investing in, and trusting, in staff "  

Explanation:

Here is the example story of British indie bookstore owner:

In 2018 the days of the last big retail store in the United States seems to have been numbered. A decade of sales losses, traumatic lay-offs, 150 store closures, six CFOs and a 1 billion-dollar loss on its e-reader from Nook has left the company in the midst of an identity crisis.

In the recent decade, Daunt has emerged as an unexpected salvator for bookstores for large-scale businesses and is now accountable at Barnes&Noble for the rebirth of Waterston, the British retailer of about 300 branches. In a world where Amazon offer unspeakable convenience and costs, large book retailers can prosper only if they behave more like independents. His plan for recovery is based on a simple assumption.

Investment and confidence is the foundation of Daunt's bookselling strategy. "The secret to successful employers is retaining them long-term, building up careers, training them businesses."

The staff at Daunt Books know what makes customers feel like they're in a readers ' culture. They follow those principles: never prescribe more than three books at a time, so that the consumer is not frustrated. Do not just hand out your own preferences when anyone asks for a recommendation. First of all, say, "What was the last good book that you read?"It is more likely to appreciate somebody who enjoys Tana's French mysteries than the next Thomas Pynchon.

employers prefer to hire ingenious, resourceful people because ingenious people may be more liable to engage in unethical deportment as they can cerebrate outside of the box

according to the song of roland, the characteristics of an ideal knight are: loyalty to the king, skilled warriors and horseman, valiant, bold, courageous, strong and proud in battle. they should be determined to fulfil their duties and willing to die to make their people safe.