Book Store

Overview
A book store refers to a physical brick and mortar storefront that offer books and other publications for sale. There are different types of bookstores that focus on selling new books or used books. In addition, there are academic bookstores that serve the educational market and general bookstores that serves the public consumer.

Physical bookstores are facing serious competitive threat from e-books downloaded directly to e-reading devices. Many large bookstore chains have shuttered their doors as a result of the e-book evolution. In addition, physical books are subjected to "showrooming" where customers would browse a book for the content and instead of buying the physical book, purchase the e-book from an Internet-based seller.

Location and Facilities
The idea location of a bookstore would be a "town center" or a high-density shopping district allowing affluent shoppers to have a place to sit down and enjoy browsing and shopping in an urban setting.

The bookstore interior layout would have a seating arrangement that enables people to sit and read books comfortably and also allow a casual living room style setting for familiar customers to sit together and possibly recommend a book to each other.

Equipment
Shelving. Display books categorized by the content type (manga, cookbooks, etc.) on different shelves to direct customers interested in a specific topic area to research books.

Table Display. Highlight new releases or a specific promotion such as spotlight on local authors, customer's picks, staff picks or clearance.

Self-Lookup Kiosk. Enable a customer to look up a book and direct them to the location in the store or allow them to generate a special order ticket to bring to the cashier and initiate a special order.

Accent Chairs with Coffee Tables. The chairs provide a comfortable and characteristic seating for customers to read books. The coffee tables allow customers to leave books on the coffee table so they can be picked up and shelved by the staff.

Pop-Up Signs. Display new book releases and other information to grab the customer eye when they walk into a store such as a storewide sale.

'''Item Level Security Tags. '''These are RFID tags that trigger an alarm if not cleared by the checkout station.

Security System. This includes cameras that may be actively monitored by staff, security tollgates at the door that trigger an alarm if an uncleared item pass through as well as glass and door security to deter and sound an alarm if a physical break-in occurs.