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Or Maybe Nobody Reads More Than Facebook Or Twitter Posts Anymore
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Way, way back near the beginning of this column about 15 years ago (actually, it was 17 years, but who's counting?), I wrote about the closing of an iconic New Jersey bookstore, Womrath's, in Hackensack, a huge store in which I'd lost myself plenty of times over the years. It was early in the Bookstores Are Dying era, but we didn't know that -- at the time, the threat was from the chains. Now, some of those chains are dead, too. And there are two Womrath's left from what was a 50 store New York area chain, and one, in Tenafly, NJ, is closing, leaving only one in Westchester left. The thing is, I've been buying e-books for years, but I've lately preferred the old-fashioned analog hardcovers: They're harder to travel with, but they're easier and more comfortable to read. Is there a future for bookstores like there's been for independent record stores selling resurgent vinyl, or are they still all going to go away? (Bergen Record)
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