Originally Posted by fjtorres
Blaming the internet alone, and focusing on Amazon specifically, is short sighted. The problem is not online nor is it the Mall concept itself, but rather the technological and sociological changes that reduced the need and profitability of the format.
Essentially the same thing that happened to the cathedrals of literature.
There's still room for them but only in certain very specific and limited places.
It's the 21st century out there--a fifth of the way through--and 20th century concepts are more problem than solution. New age, new solutions needed.
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