Is the Glass Really Half Full at the Book Store

Is it to much of leap to assume that Amazon believes the Kindle will do to books what Amazon has done to the bookstore?

Irene Sege piece in the Boston Globe Unchained Success Independent bookstores holding up vs. big rivals

Scott Esposito’s response at Conversational Reading Indie Bookstores Holding Up?
“the continued parroting of this tired “corporate vs indy” storyline prevents deeper thinking about how exactly both models can coexist”

similar to the “buy local” mantra