What Booksellers Want

Much has been made about the importance of bricks-and-mortar bookstores as showrooms, places that will help prevent the book business from going the way of the music industry as the sales of digital books grow. But hundreds of showrooms and thousands of square feet of book retail space are about to go away when Borders closes its remaining stores next month. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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