Bookstore Culture a Thing of the Past?

Where was last place you bought a book from? If you were to buy a book sometime in the next week, where would it be? If those questions seem a little odd to you, that might mean you are one of the millions of people who in response to those questions picture themselves in front of a computer – quite possibly naught but a robe – clicking a mouse over the word “Checkout”.

Mega-bookstores like Borders and Barnes & Noble are beautiful places where the coffee is fresh and shelves are loaded with colorful dust jackets. But as Michael Rosenwald of The Washington Post recently reported they are far less often places where people actually buy books than they used to be. [READ MORE HERE]