As the years passed, Curtis Walker quit the law firm and began concentrating fully on his bookstore. He hired more employees, more books were traded in, and sales increased annually, During the mid-1990s, however, Walker was faced with two problems: many large, upscale bookstore were being built in the area, and the use of the Internet for finding and ordering books was becoming cheaper and more popular for current customers. In 1995, Walker's sales started to decline.