Books - What, exactly, are the differences between books and newspapers? - "Abroad - Beleaguered Bookseller Knows Whom to Blame - Oxfam" - NYTimes.com

The demise of bookstores is a sad development for anyone who values words. What can newspapers learn from what has happened to so many? How can those failures be turned into newspaper succeses? What I mean is that these are businesses whose offerings, almost exclusively, are words and pictures, printed on paper, and so have been newspapers; where book purchasers and readers go is much more complicated than a new electronic reader or website, and so, too, for newspapers. In the same edition of The New York Times comes this news of another bookstore failing in New York City, albeit a store speciailizing in French and other non-English language publications.