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What Happened to Curling Up With a Good Book?

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    FBN’s Stuart Varney discusses his love of book stores.

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I am an avid reader.

I always have a book to go out whenever I am down time and I read actual books I got started early and I just can't switch over to the Kindle I don't want.

But my preference is always for a real -- on the page book.

So here's my take on bonds and noble.

They will close about twenty stores a year for the next decade won't that a vessels will go away crucial miss them.

The days of the mega bookstore really all coming to an end the small neighborhood -- is long gone and I missed them too.

My local used to have a table -- you came in the doors with the staffs -- they knew that customers -- -- what they would like.

And they laid it all out -- A trip to the -- -- wasn't to chalk it will look forward to flat out I did.

But you cannot fight economic reality the sale of actual books the print production dropped 9%.

Last year.

Bonds noble -- revenue dropped 11%.

The downloaded it evil is the new guy on the block and he's winning.

Now I'm not fighting it and I'm just not going to switch.

I welcome month advances in the marketplace and in many ways the evil is an advance and if you want to take financial advantage check out -- stock.

New -- all last week up again today.

Digital technology has changed my world -- -- like it or not the great thing is.

We still have the choice.

Bookstores will not totally disappear.

Print books will always be available certainly in my lifetime but just -- I -- the newspaper spreading the world in front of me.

So will I miss the nearby bookstore spreading the choices in front of me as I walk in the deal.

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