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In reply to the discussion: Tampa Bay Times Bill Maxwell laments "slow death of bookstores." I'm with him on that. [View all]marions ghost
(19,841 posts)I read lots of stuff on a kindle, but I also like books. What is happening is that B&N has Nook, and the Indy bookstores are using ereaders like Kobo. And I actually read books on a laptop.
Readers need to be versatile, but I want to browse in a bookstore and check out the hardcopies as well.
Our Barnes & Noble has turned into a toy store I like kids but they are allowed to yell and run around there now. I had to actually do kid control for the poor customer service person who was overwhelmed not long ago. NOT a creative move B&N. (I could have given them a lot of better ideas but they didn't ask me...)
I think there will be room for electronic and paper books for quite awhile yet.
Edit to say: In sympathy with the OP, I am still mourning our Borders too. A great place to hang out--and we have so few.