Kepler's 2020: Literary Entrepreneur Reinvents the Bookstore

February 17, 2012 - 11:45am — Blake

Kepler's 2020: Literary Entrepreneur Reinvents the Bookstore
Two trends are important to shaping Madan's thinking about bookstores and their future. Influenced by Robert Putnam's book Bowling Alone, he believes technology has an isolating impact. The best bookstores, like Kepler's, serve as a much-needed community hub. Secondly, as advanced as book ecommerce sites can be with recommendation engines, samples, or search inside the book, they don't replace the discovery of browsing physical books.