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.

]]> https://journalism.blog.brooklyn.edu/2014/05/shakespeare-co-closes-the-door-in-brooklyn/feed/ 0 https://journalism.blog.brooklyn.edu/2014/05/dining-with-tablets/ https://journalism.blog.brooklyn.edu/2014/05/dining-with-tablets/#respond Mon, 19 May 2014 18:41:27 +0000 http://journalism.blog.brooklyn.edu/?p=3906 ...[read more]]]> Technology will change the way you dine at your favorite Applebees. The restaurant chain plans to add 100,000 tablets for customers to use when they order.  It’s expected the tablets will pop up in about 1800 restaurants nationwide. Christine Alexis finds that servers are wary and afraid the technology will take their jobs. Restaurant customers, who haven’t tried the new method of ordering, are concerned about tech’s intrusion into their downtime.

 

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