Maybe -all- the corporate bookstores will tank. And then the little indies with their low overhead and innate charm could fill the welcome void. That'd be good

Maybe -all- the corporate bookstores will tank. And then the little indies with their low overhead and innate charm could fill the welcome void. That'd be good. Cuz: you can't browse through hundreds of books at Amazon, and make those amazing discoveries that change your life. And you can't pick something on a whim and take it home to read that evening at Amazon. You can't talk to a human being, or meet other readers at Amazon. Only the little bookstores ever have that oddball stuff that bigstores will never carry that you can pick up and smell and leaf through and take a chance on. Corporate bookstores weren't an improvement, they were a symptom.