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# Closing the doors
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/closing-the-doors/
- Published: 2005-10-03T22:57:45.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T21:02:47.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Misc

[![burke.jpg](https://www.lorcandempsey.net/content/images/wordpress/lorcan/burke.jpg)](https://search.kennys.ie/kvs-app/List.csp?SearchT1=1859183794&Index1=Zkeywords&Database=6&BoolOp2=AND&SearchT2=&Index2=Zkeywords&BoolOp3=AND&SearchT3=&Index3=Zkeywords&Owned=NoPreference&SearchMethod=Find%5F3&SearchTerm1=1859183794&SearchTerm2=&SearchTerm3=&OpacLanguage=eng&Profile=Books&RequestId=&PageType=Start&PreviousList=Start&WebPageNr=1&NumberToRetrieve=20&WebAction=NewSearch&StartValue=0&ref=lorcandempsey.net)A while ago, I [reported](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000692.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net) a discussion with a used bookseller about the conflicting requirements of his online and walk-in stores.  
I read in the [Irish Times](https://www.ireland.com/?ref=lorcandempsey.net) (September 24) that [Kenny’s](https://www.kennys.ie/?ref=lorcandempsey.net), a bookselling institution based in Galway, is to close its shop doors and go fully online. They sell Irish books worldwide, to libraries and others. Tom Kenny is quoted:

> “Twenty per cent of all books sold in America last year were sold online and the overhads of selling online compared to in a city centre location are startling; why not avail of that?” Though there was a huge attachment to the High Street shop forged in family blood, sweat and tears, it was now cost-effective to take this new direction of full-scale internet retailing.

Space trumps place.  
Note: I see that Kenny’s includes an OCLC number in their entries (click on the picture to see one), from which I created this [link](https://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/oclc/59755878?ref=lorcandempsey.net).