Seductive Smell of Coffee Saves Libraries?

An Anonymous Patron writes “Advice from
Kathleen Parker of the Orlando Sentinel: ‘If you want people to gather, whether in a retail shop, a grocery store, a devastated coast or a blighted urban area — even a public library where few go to read anymore — build a Starbucks, or something like it. B&N, thanks in no small part to the seductive smell of coffee, has become the new public library.'”