Kindle &

Communities

"Books are the last bastion of analog" Jeff

Bezos, CEO Amazon

“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

Kramerbooks

Dupont Circle, Washington

DC

“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

“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

“…book clubs could meet inside of the book…” - Bob Stein, Institute for the Future of the Book

“Optimists foresee the Internet ushering in a new, vibrant participatory culture

of words.”– Washington Post

February 2008

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