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Kindle &
Communities
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"Books are the last bastion of analog" Jeff
Bezos, CEO Amazon
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“There’s an even broader array of media—analog, digital, electronic, hand-held, tangible and virtual– from which to pick and choose. There will inevitably be a sorting out process. Few media are likely to disappear completely; rather, the idiosyncratic genius and peculiar limitations of each medium will become increasingly clear.” – Washington Post, February 2008
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Kramerbooks
Dupont Circle, Washington
DC
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“The bookstore fills a need in the community by providing a public space in which like-minded people can mingle and meet, brought together by the rows of books and magazines, or one of the many events sponsored by the store…”
– Laura J. Miller, Shopping for community: The Transformation of the Bookstore into a Vital Community Institution
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“Physical bookstores, like the shuttered Tower Records of today, will be lonelier places, as digital reading thrusts us into an exciting—and jarring–post-Guttenberg era.” Newsweek, November,
2007
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“…book clubs could meet inside of the book…” - Bob Stein, Institute for the Future of the Book
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“Optimists foresee the Internet ushering in a new, vibrant participatory culture
of words.”– Washington Post
February 2008
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