A Bookstore for the Modern Reader

As much as I love Google, my search engine of choice, I'm always pleased to hear when a small company can take on the big wigs in the corporate world and come out smiling.

This article from Forbes.com explains how Kobo, a small Canadian e-reading company, took up the mantle of selling ebooks in independent bookstores that Google shrugged off this past spring. Google's program was cancelled due to lack of success, but "in the first month of the Kobo partnership (Oct. last year), independent bookstores sold more ebooks than in the entire two years working with Google" (Greenfield).

Though I'm not much of an e-reader myself, I encourage those who are to check out your local bookstore for your next ebook, rather than buying it off Amazon. Online ebooksellers may have cornered the market on convenience, but for those of you who may miss the experience of browsing a good old-fashioned bookstore, this could be a way to reclaim that nostalgia while serving your digital-age literary appetite.

On another note, upon entering Forbes' site I was greeted with the following quote, which struck as me as rather pleasantly literary.

Forbes Thought Of The Day

“Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door. ”

— Charles Lamb