Another day, another article about the death of book publishing due to e-books.

My main concern is how online only stores like Amazon and online only methods of purchasing and reading books like e-books reduce that old-fashioned activity known as browsing.

Especially for someone like myself, whose book buying habits lean towards niche tomes, I depend on various forms of browsing to discover new books. While some of those forms of browsing are online, the publishers themselves depend on dedicated booksellers in brick and mortar locations to keep them, if not in the black, at least marginally out of the red.