Does Borders Bankruptcy Signify the End of Physical Bookstores?
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Dan O'Connor, managing editor of independent publisher Melville House, took to the company's "MobyLives" blog to react to the Borders news. "As the share of the brick-and-mortar retail market erodes—stores close. As stores close, and as consumers desert printed books for digital formats, the market for printed books further contracts," he wrote. "The end of mass production of printed books, however, does not depend on their complete abandonment in favor of e-readers. Printed books are costly to produce. Sooner, rather than later, the dwindling number of brick-and-mortar stores will not be buying enough 'offline' books from publishers to justify the expense of printing, binding and shipping them."
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