-
“[Myth:] Amazon is going to kill the independent/second-hand book store. While I can’t say for sure this is 100% false, I’m very confident that Amazon will not kill independent, local, and second-hand book stores; there’s no substitute for their ambience, knowledgeable staff, and propensity to stock hard-to-find titles. In fact, should Amazon manage to kill brick-and-mortar chains (which I think is the likelier scenario), indepedents might undergo a resurgence/renaissance of sorts. Think of it this way: chains are the dinosaurs, indies are the scrappy mammals, and Amazon is the asteroid.”