Sun
Jun
22
Cody's R.I.P.
Now, this is sad. When I read, not long ago, of the woes of B&N and Borders—cheese-ball McBooksellers both, run by soulless number-crunchers—I felt nothing but schadenfreude, but this is quite another matter. The Big Bad Wolf of internet retailing, is, of course, partially to blame for blowing down the bricks-and-mortar, but I think it’s much worse than that. Even if literacy isn’t actually in decline (though in the U.S. it may very well be) then literateness certainly is. A place like Cody’s in its heyday wasn’t geared for the ________ for Dummies world we now live in.
