A
new opportunity may have just opened up for the book publishing industry: the legalization of sports gambling.
With
the Supreme Court announcing states can choose to legalize or regulate sports betting,
a monumental opportunity has arisen not just for sports teams and states that
pursue sports gambling, but for the book world.
Bookstores should lobby to accept the placement of bets. Get it.
You can “book” your bet at the bookstore. Let your bookstore be your “bookie.” What are the odds of that happening?
But
if it does, bookstores will not only rake in tons of money, they will draw
crowds. Some bettors, while
waiting around to see if their bets pay off, can read-buy books and sit at the
store’s café. All those winners may want
to splurge for a gift (book) for someone.
Additionally,
publishers can cash in on the betting craze.
There should be a flood of books coming out, perhaps these:
How
to Bet on Basketball (or Football or Baseball or Hockey, etc.)
All
the States You Need to Know About To Be A Smart Sports Bettor
Where
to Vacation – and Place your Sports Bets
How
to Reduce Your Taxes on Sports Winnings
After Marijuana and Sports Betting Goes Legal, Prostitution is Next
There
will also be these likely titles:
·
How
I Fixed Games to Win at Betting on Sports
·
Should
Pete Rose Be Let Into the Hall of Fame?
·
The
Lost Wager: How Sports Betting Addiction Tripled in 2018.
·
The
Death of Las Vegas: Why America Adopted
Gambling at Home.
·
Instant
Replay: Did Sports Gambling Kill Pro
Sports?
It
may seem like sports betting and books have little in common, but perhaps there
really will be a connection. Bookstores
should stock up on books about sports, gambling, and addictions. They should – no joke – seek to get in on the
action just like how every candy store now sells lottery tickets.
Bookstores
should invite speakers who know about sports betting from casino owners to
legislators to Mafia Kingpins to gambling addicts. America is going backwards but why not capitalize
on its demise?
Bookstores
should also sell e-cigarettes, pot, lotto tickets, beer, and anything that gets
people in their stores. Vice
shmice. Bettors are book buyers too.
Let’s not discriminate!
Only
in a Trump America does the casino-mentality rule. It figures that a former gambling tycoon
would be in office when the Supreme Court rules in favor of expanding our
nation’s degeneracy. Now go write a book
about it and cash in. Everyone else will.
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