"Last winter he went to a housewarming party for some neighbors who were about 30 years old and was amazed to see no printed or recorded matter of any kind. No books, no magazines or newspapers, no CDs.
"Another time, a customer browsing in the shop told him he was not interested in books because 'they're too slow a form of information delivery.'
"'People under 30 do not relate to books,' Dowdy said. 'We're in the middle of a generational shift. It's not my world at 70. I can tell talking to them that they're every bit as intelligent as any other generation, but their focus is different. These books are invisible to them.'"
Scott Timberg in the Los Angeles Times marks the end of Other Times Books, shuttering yet another local used-book store.
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