Farewell to Independent Bookstores

Farewell to Independent Bookstores: pFascinating discussion of independent bookstores yesterday at Instapundit. Glenn Reynolds started things off by linking to a Slate article by Farhad Manjoo, which characterized independent booksellers as “the least efficient, least user-friendly, and most mistakenly mythologized local establishments you can find.” Reynolds’s readers piled on, describing indies as “unwelcoming” and “elitist,” with an inventory of [...]/p