Urbana's lone book store is set to close after serving the community for 25 years.
After the closing of the 2 mall bookstores in Springfield's Upper Valley Mall, Springfield, 10 miles south of Urbana, is left with one independent book store & one comic book store. The next nearest bookstore to Urbana is in West Liberty, about 12 miles to the north. There are a couple other book sores out in the rural wastes of central Ohio but the best selections will be in Columbus, about 50 miles to the east.
Is the bookstore even relevant today? One can get on Amazon & read customer reviews, view rankings, etc...
Champaign County does have a library. What it's future is - who knows?
With the added tech of Kindle type crap, the bookstore gradually gets less and less relevant. The Amazon portal for independent book dealers keeps old books available to the general public without requiring a person to hunt about in all these small town book stores.
Whatever, it's still kinda sad.
Noose Son story here.
1 comment:
I will never give up a real, paper book for a digital one. I like to break spines and page back and forth, make notes, turn the page corners down. I like the feel of it in my hand. I like the look of it in my library or coffee table. Young kids today will never know what it's like holding a 1,000-page copy of War and Peace in one hand with the pages turned back. Sad story, Mark.
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