http://futurismic.com/2009/08/26/rushkoff-is-bullish-on-book-futures/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Sat, 19 May 2012 23:03:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://futurismic.com/2009/08/26/rushkoff-is-bullish-on-book-futures/comment-page-1/#comment-43467 Gary Gibson Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:20:09 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=8733#comment-43467 I think people forget we were buying plenty of books before the advent of the mammoth bookstores, which are increasingly looking anachronistic in the modern age of internet retail. Their collapse will, I agree, bring back the smaller, more quality-oriented retailers, and hopefully bring them back to the High Street where they belong. They'll be small and canny enough to negotiate an increasingly digitized future because there will still be a demand for physical product for a long, long time. I think people forget we were buying plenty of books before the advent of the mammoth bookstores, which are increasingly looking anachronistic in the modern age of internet retail. Their collapse will, I agree, bring back the smaller, more quality-oriented retailers, and hopefully bring them back to the High Street where they belong. They’ll be small and canny enough to negotiate an increasingly digitized future because there will still be a demand for physical product for a long, long time.

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