Another African American
Bookstore Folds

The African-American Heritage Bookstore in West Palm Beach, Florida, will close its doors permanently at the end of the month, according to Rhonda Swan at the Palm Beach Post.

Swan also mentions the closing of Karibu Books and a Palm Beach Borders. Could it be that all the African-American bookstore closings are just the beginning? When the Kindle and Sony Reader become cheaper and easier to use–will it be bye-bye mortar and brick bookstores?

Your local Borders and Barnes and Nobles could go the way of the record store unless they hit on some new magic formula. I certainly hope not; still I wouldn’t put my money on them being as plentiful as they are currently ten years from now. You can’t stop technology any more than you can stop progress.