Death of a Bookstore

Boston's Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop is closing its doors after 29 years. (Via Bookslut.) An interesting laundry list of reasons is cited. The summation is particularly bitter:

"Thus, we come to the twilight of the age of books; to the closing of the mind; to the pitiful end of the quest for knowledge--and stare into the cold abyss of night."

Uh, Mr. Bookseller, I understand your obviously deep disappointment, but there's still a great love of reading and writing out there, even if the commercial means of delivering literature has changed. It's not as if the government is conducting mandatory book burnings before cheering throngs of millions.