I know I've written about this a lot, but the hits just keep coming:

Futurismic wonders if this coming year is going to be basically the end of the line for bookstores. And it links to this Techdirt post:

Past studies have shown that an active second hand market helps to boost the sales of new goods, because it makes those goods more valuable to folks who recognize they'll be able to resell them on the second hand market later...Obviously, just selling books is going to make less and less sense, but we've seen retailers that have worked hard to turn their stores into destinations, where there were good reasons to go and buy stuff, rather than just being a physical version of what you could get online.

And there's a comment on that Techdirt post that's maybe the most depressing blog comment I've ever seen:

This is the way my local bookstore is. They have all kinds of stuff other than just books for sale. It's called "Walmart".