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Originally Posted by DD1509
Most have closed down. In the San Francisco area, the largest and oldest Tower Records went away a many years ago. All of the speciality record/CD stores are gone. Only the few mass merchandisers are still there because they don't have to live on the proceeds from music-only.
If the same applies and logically it should, most of the small, independent book stores will go away. Maybe some of the specialty, used-book stores will get by for awhile. But only a a few of the largest may survive.
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This is assuming that the reading public moves entirely to digital. Otherwise the comparison is not really valid.