for indie stores, if you get to somewhere in that, 15-20% of your inventory makes to be nonbook, you ve got a profitable plan. a store that is selling 15-20% non-books is still a bookstore. it s important for it to still be a bookstore because that s what your customers are expecting, but you need to get somewhere within that, that 15-20% range. i know there are stores that are a little bit about that, that do well and clearly still continue to look and feel like a bookstore. i think the over all things go about the independent bookstores is that you are all different. the mix of product is different. what may work in joyce s star is not necessarily going to work in the store on the west side of manhattan. so i think it s really hard sometimes to generalize about what if it works in one place, wilderness is early work somewhere else? i think more often than not the opposite is true. just because it does work in one place means it may less likely work somewhere else. that s of