Saving Secondhand Bookstores

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Thomas H. Benton: Saving Secondhand Bookstores, Chronicle of Higher Education September 13, 2005

Another article from the Chronicle pining for archaic technology, this time in the form of the used bookstore, and ending with the absurd proposal that "an endowment could be created to provide vouchers -- $500 a semester, maybe -- for graduate students, and possibly undergraduates, to purchase secondhand books." Yeah, or they could buy a computer and tap into the Gutenberg Project, Wikipedia and the Internet Archive. More...