Remember 10 years ago and everyone was fretting about the death of the independent book store because the large book retailers were gobbling up space? But also remember that if you actually cared about books, you always liked shopping at the independent book store as opposed to the large retailer? Turns out you were right.
From Salon: How Borders Lost Its Soul
"About 10 years ago, Borders opened a store in Hyde Park, less than a mile from 57th Street Books. It's on this week's extinction list. So it turns out that after all the Op-Ed fretting about neighborhoods being swallowed by commercial behemoths, there are neighborhoods where an independent bookstore served the local market better than Borders."
Read more at Salon
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