The Indie Store of the Future

Reading Lorina's rankings of Independent bookstores in previous post, I tried to imagine the sort of store I (Robert) would like to see.

My vision of the independent bookstore of the future is one with an Espresso Machine, a coffee bar, a flat screen monitor flashing random 30 second shots of coverart/coverblurbs from the available Espresso catalog, and a set of bookshelves filled with 'staff picks' off the Espresso machine. Maybe a couple of computer stations fixed to a site like GoodReads. ...