Today, we bid a bittersweet good-bye to Coliseum Books in New York City. The store will close by the end of the year.

I know that, in business, it's unusual to eulogize your competitors, but I think if you grew up in a certain era, the independent bookstore was how you first became familiar with books and may have been what made you love them.

Coliseum's closing is the latest in a series that marks the changes in the publishing industry. See the NYT graveyard article here.