"Even with Borders disappearing, the independents will still have to face competition from the Kindle, the Nook and the iPad, not to mention Amazon. But as paper books become a niche product, niche retailers will be the best place to buy and sell them. Book lovers will always want a place to gather and hear recommendations from a bookseller who knows their reading habits, and their community. Borders belonged to an era when book retailing was a big enough business to monopolize. Now that there's no money in it anymore, we may have to go back to shopping for books in stores that let dogs wander through the stacks, and don't even serve coffee."
Edward McClelland in Salon discusses the decline of Borders bookstores.
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