As sales of paper books fall at bookstores, online sales increase, and digital books outsell paper ones at Amazon.com, will brick-and-mortar bookstores be around for much longer? Liberty Media is bidding for ailing Barnes & Noble (mostly for its Nook e-reader) and Borders is in Chapter 11 and closing stores as fast as it can to stay alive long enough to be bought.
Maybe, maybe not.
Change is painful in all industries. While buggy and buggywhip shops still exist, auto dealers and auto parts shops are more plentiful, at least for now. We can only wonder when jetpack and aircar shops will predominate.
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