Every time that I read one of these stories I am reminded that bookstores are not the first businesses to fall victim to technological change. I wonder if the closing of blacksmith shops and buggy whip factories sparked the same sense of loss?

I am also reminded that I hear very little talk about what I see as one of the biggest dangers of our society converting from dead tree media to digital. I suspect that long after our present society has fallen, as it must inevitably do, and new ones have risen to replace it, the archeologists of that future time will never have a clue of the secrets inside a hard drive or a memory card. At least today's historians who stumble across an ancient book or other writing can at least recognize it for what it is, undecipherable as it may be.

@2 There's always printouts.

BTW, yours has been sitting at the printer for the past hour. Please come pick it up.

Hey folks, stop by an Indie today and don't forget your local record stores.