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There's no reasons bookstores can't continue to exist, and even thrive... just not as huge, impersonal "open warehouses" of printed books. Bringing back the knowledgeable staff, there to help customers, to make recommendations, to help guide them in appropriate directions, would bring people back to bookstores in droves. It would be more like a book-centric lounge, and probably sell food, drinks and other things to enjoy as you visited.
And there's no reason the online sales can't be accomplished at the bookstores as well, either e-mailed to you, or downloaded into whatever storage medium you brought with you--and these days, the reality of having some kind of memory storage available on your person is becoming almost ubiquitous.
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