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by KerrAvon 1329 days ago
Won’t defend Amazon generally, but you need to blame private equity and skyrocketing real estate prices for the end of brick and mortar bookstores. And, for completeness, if we’re saying goodbye to great Silicon Valley bookstores of yore: A Clean Well Lighted Place For Books in Cupertino and the BookBuyers in Mountain View were also around 30 years ago, although they were more general. And strip mall ones like Waldenbooks still existed too.