Is There a Bookstore of the Future?

At the New England Independent Booksellers Association annual fall conference earlier this month, booksellers and publishers grappled not just with the question of what bricks-and-mortar bookstores will look like in the future, but how long they will continue to exist. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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