"Physical bookshops" refers to brick-and-mortar stores where physical books are sold, as opposed to online bookstores or digital platforms. Full definition
And because brick - and - mortar retailing is much more costly and less efficient than Amazon's business model, the value of those retail shelves is disappearing, and a lot of physical bookshops have shut their doors. (hughhowey.com)
I explored the easy options first, because I didn't really want to get into the expense and the difficulty and the rigour of producing pallets of physical books to go in physical bookshops. (blog.reedsy.com)
Meanwhile, 95 % of respondents think physical bookshops will suffer. (thebookseller.com)