Essay: Death of The Bookstore

Daily Princetonian: "When I returned home this summer, my local bookstore had undergone not only a facelift, but also gastric bypass, tonsillectomy and an appendectomy. My favorite haunts — history, politics, current events, philosophy and religion — were compressed into a small section of the store to make way for toy displays. I even received an e-mail hawking children’s Halloween costumes. And right inside the front door is an apparently permanent kiosk showing off the company’s new e-reader."