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Originally Posted by Crowl
The scanner vs multifunction device is a good example of just why it can still be a good thing to have separate devices, separate functions tied together in a package that is generally bulkier, no cheaper and a single point of failure i.e. your printer breaks and you have also lost your scanner.
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Originally Posted by corona
I didn't want to start another thread, 'cause there's just no shortage whatsoever of this stuff and one gets, well, kind of tired, but now the newspaper of record has the iPad killing off not just the independents, but the big-box bookstores, too:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/bu...e&ref=business |
As much as I love pbooks (but I should say that I love
texts rather than p- and e-books) I feel the article mythicises too much the bookstore as a physical place. Yes, I loved the feeling of coming out of London's Waterstone Picadilly with
some bags of books, but let's face it: it's
business. (The same is, for me, the most romantic, small, cared-for, loving, paper-smelling specialised bookshop.) I don't know, but it seems to me a rather too subjective approach to the problem, rather than an equilibrate assessment of how things are doing for the bricks-and-mortars. Uhm.
