[Leica] Borders bankruptcy

[Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)]

Books will continue as long as enough people buy them. My grandchildren 
enjoy books. They may get more expensive, they may be only available from 
low-cost on line retailers rather than high cost main street shops, but they 
will only disappear if demand dries up.
IMO
FD
On 16 Feb, 2011, at 15:32, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:

> It's not only the small independent book stores that are closing. Borders,
> the giant book retailer, just filed for bankruptcy and announced that they
> will close 200 stores. For those Luggers unfamiliar with the U.S. 
> publishing
> market, Borders is second only to Barnes and Noble as a retail book outlet.
> The stores are as big as supermarkets. Blame it all on TV, Amazon, the 
> iPad,
> the Kindle, the Nook and the general loss of reading interest by the
> information consuming public.
> 
> 
> Today I heard an interview with one of the mavens of the digital age who
> proclaimed that, within a few years, print on paper would disappear as a
> form of communication and information transmission. This would be a real
> loss for old timers like me. I seem to be one of the few fully computer
> literate octogenarians in my community and even I am intimidated by the
> complexity of current technology. My wife finds the pushbutton telephone a
> challenge and she is not alone. She has never learned the intricacies of 
> the
> TV remote control. But she enjoys reading and viewing images on printed
> pages. And buys dozens of books a year. If books become obsolete what will
> we do with all the shelf space?
> 
> 
> Larry Z
> 
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