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Quotation of the Day for January 23, 2013"All things happen in a cycle. The little bookstore had succeeded and grown into a bigger bookstore. Seeing the potential for profit, the superstore chains rose up and crushed the independents, then Amazon rose up and crushed the superstore chains. Now that we could order any book at any hour without having to leave the screen in front of us, we realized what we had lost: the community center, the human interaction, the recommendation of a smart reader rather than a computer algorithm telling us what other shoppers had purchased. I promised whoever was listening that from those very ashes, the small independent bookstore would rise again." - Ann Patchett, novelist, in "The Bookstore Strikes Back". The article was published in the December 2012 issue of The Atlantic. [http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/12/the-bookstore-strikes-back/309164/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Jan. 22, 2013  |
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