Firefly's Blog

We've said many times before that we're not worried about the future of books. In the history of the bookstore, businesses have experienced many occasions of new products predicted to be the "death of bookstores". Some of our favorite examples include the Mass Market (pocketbook) edition, and the audio book.We've discussed before about where the book store has come from and where it's going. We concluded that even though the industry has seen upheaval and store closings, in general book store …

There's been some recent news that has made some waves in the book world. Namely, the CEO of Barnes & Nobel suddenly resigning this past July. This of course has made the news sources explode with articles about the death of bookstores and the potential end for the last remaining national chain. So the news continues to look grim for book lovers right? One can throw an internet rock and hit dozens of articles obliquely or overtly predicting the death of all bookstores everyw …