I could have told you book supermarkets are toast

Borders Books Nears Liquidation - The Daily Beast: "Borders Books may soon be no more: bids were due at 5 p.m. on Sunday for the struggling book-store chain, but the deadline passed without a single offer." I used to scout scarce books (and an occasional rare one) and there is no bookstore worthy of the name where the owner cannot see the customer and the book. Better the antiseptic reality of the e-book than the transmutation of Wal-mart to book dealing. There was a window of opportunity for these behemoths. It is shutting tight with a happy vengeance. Books will come back when neighborhoods and kiosks and an evolution of the tag-sale morph into the cyber city that will replace today's strip city, sprawl, has-been urban wastelands.

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