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Hmm...I can remember a time when the bookstores section of the phonebook. for the metro area I've lived in or around all my life, was about 30 pages long. That section has shrunk to under two pages. In the 80s and early 90s we had hundreds of independent and specialty bookstores including a local chain of rather large and popular bookstores. That chain died by the end of the 90s and the specialties shops have pretty much vanished as well. It was popular to blame the disappearance of that wealth of bookstores on the arrival of the national chain bookstores Borders and Barnes & Nobles in the area.
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