Bookstores: Oblivion or Survival?

“Saying that bookstores won’t be around in the future because Wal-Mart and Amazon sell books is like saying Italian restaurants will go out of business because we have canned spaghetti sauce.”–Michael Norris, a senior analyst at Simba Information, in a Houston Chronicle piece headlined “Booksellers buck e-trend: Analysts say there’s a place for stores that do their job well.”