The business model that failed isn't books, it was financing rapid expansion with cheap and easy credit, then when credit is not as cheap or easy to get you have a huge amount of debt service coming due all the time that you can't pay on. There is very little difference between the house flipper types that ran into that same problem and multi-national corporations that failed doing that. All of them got drunk with cheap and easy credit.

I was at the Barnes & Noble at The Arboretum today and it was packed in there and there were many buying books. That location is one of the few in Austin that carries many of the professional books that I need, I bought a 3DS Max 2012 book and was looking at some of the new building code books.