It’s the end of an era in Basalt as Town Center Booksellers announced in a press release that the store was folding at the end of March 2009, an immeasurable loss to the book-loving community.
Read coverage in The Aspen Times.
Read coverage in the Aspen Daily News.
“[Fred] Durham said that the bookstore was holding its own until last fall when consumers put their wallets away, but it was already being hurt by new products like Kindle, a wireless reading device, and a missing generation of hardcover book buyers.”
“There is a whole generation coming up that is taking their information from a different medium than a bound book,” Durham said.
Brent Gardner-Smith is also reporting on the closure of Colorado Baggage retail store.