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Sunday, February 12, 2012

In the Future, Everything will be a coffee shop

[...] there's the financial reality: Between e-books and print-on-demand, the huge big-box bookstores will eventually shrink to fill just those needs - a coffee shop with a few shelves, a few printers, and an author signing books over in the corner.
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In the future, everything will be a coffee shop: Goodbye, universities, offices, and stores. Hello, comfy chairs and caffeine.

Gordon, Stephen. Boston Globe [Boston, Mass] 12 Feb 2012.

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Sunday, February 12, 2012

In the Future, Everything will be a coffee shop

In the future, everything will be a coffee shop: Goodbye, universities, offices, and stores. Hello, comfy chairs and caffeine.

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