https://journalism.blog.brooklyn.edu At Brooklyn News Service, student journalists from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York cover the news of New York City. Brooklyn College offers a B.A. in Journalism and a B.S. in Broadcast Journalism. Mon, 19 May 2014 18:54:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://journalism.blog.brooklyn.edu/2014/05/shakespeare-co-closes-the-door-in-brooklyn/ https://journalism.blog.brooklyn.edu/2014/05/shakespeare-co-closes-the-door-in-brooklyn/#respond Mon, 19 May 2014 18:54:52 +0000 http://journalism.blog.brooklyn.edu/?p=3908 ...[read more]]]> Empty bookshelves line the walls at Shakespeare & Co.’s store on Hillel Place and Campus Road.  The long-time  bookseller found it’s impossible to compete with the digital world. Online retailers like Amazon cut into profits, and E-readers like the Kindle Fire stole eyeballs.  Store managers tell Christian Colon, they could not hang on any  longer.

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