Borders Book Stores Closing

  Well it is definitley no secret, but Borders book store is closing.  The retail chain had filed for bankruptcy in February, and now it has been decided that the stores will close.  There were several offers that were made to purchase the stores and assets, but none of the offers could satisfy the creditors and closing down seems to be the only option.  The shame of the matter is that a lot of jobs will be lost. 
   The even deeper question is this:  Where are the books going?  Several website and blog articles site the demise of Borders on their lack of marketing an electronic book reader, such as the Kindle.  But the real focus should be on the vanishing of a classic educational facet: books.  Even some online colleges don't require the purchase of a physical text, but rather purchase of an onling or PDF text.  Some of the text books are even included with the classes in an electronic format.  Books are disappearing before our very eyes.
    Now that cursive is becoming obsolete, it is only logical that books should follow as well.  There seems to be a much greater trend in our country to depersonalize human contact, with the proliferation of online social networking.