THOMAS F. BERTONNEAU writes in response to this entry on the future of the bookstore:
Books are not indestructible, but short of tossing them into a furnace or dropping them into an industrial shredder they are difficult to annihilate. Not so the electronic file. A single electromagnetic burst over the North American continent could erase every unprotected [...]
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