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align="left" height="68" width="115">It has been
about a month since Dish Networks announced that
they were closing the remaining 300 Blockbuster
Video stores, starting a rash of articles
proclaiming the death of the video rental
business. Have you seen a drop in demand for
videos in your library? Maybe not. There is some
question as to just what the closing of
Blockbuster really says about our culture and the
shift from physical to digital media delivery in
general. There may be food for thought here for
libraries.
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://research.gigaom.com/2013/11/blockbuster-goes-bye-bye-its-all-kiosks-digital-now/">Blockbuster
goes bye-bye: It's all kiosks & digital
now</a> (GigaOM/Michael Wolf) "There will be
lots of postmortems about Blockbuster and the
death of physical media over the next few days,
and they will be, for the most part, stating the
obvious (and right) conclusion that the
continual move towards digital distribution
meant movie rental was a dying business,
particularly the big-footprint brand of rental
that Blockbuster had pioneered in the 80s and
still, by and large, used today. But in the end,
I think kiosks like Red Box were just as deadly,
if not more, to Blockbuster."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/06/blockbusters-demise-an-elegy-to-video-store-culture/">Blockbuster's
demise; An elegy to video store culture</a>
(TechCrunch/Chris Nesi) "With the advent of
Redbox, a machine not much larger than an ATM
performs a service that in my lifetime once took
a building, a payroll, a management hierarchy,
and two-dozen employees to deliver. Despite the
distinct lack of "experience" involved in
sauntering up to a machine and pressing a few
buttons to make your selection and pay for it,
the store model didn't stand a chance."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-11-06/blockbusters-death-scene-wont-end-the-video-rental-store">Blockbuster's
death scene won't end the video rental store</a>
(BloombergBusinessweek/Justin Bachman) "'The
fact is that one retailer just doesn't an
industry make,' says Mark Fisher, president and
chief executive of the Entertainment Merchants
Association, a home-video and gaming trade
group. 'When Tower closed its doors, it
certainly didn't signal the end of the music
business.' Indeed, in the $18 billion home-video
market, rental is hot. Spending for movie
rentals is expected to top movie sales this year
for the first time since 2001, according to
research firm BTIG."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/blockbuster-closes-its-last-stores-is-this-the-future-for-barnes-noble/">Blockbuster
closes its last stores - is this the future
for Barnes & Noble?</a> (TeleRead/Chris
Meadows) "I remember when you couldn't find
anything in the discount movie bins except
badly-dubbed Jackie Chan movies and other
public-domain films for which people might just
be willing to pay a buck or so more than they
cost to crank out. But now you find classics and
blockbusters just a couple of years old. I was
in Best Buy the other day and found <em>Labyrinth</em>,
<em>The Wild Bunch</em>, and <em>There Will Be
Blood</em> on Blu-ray for $8 each. And I
didn't buy any of them because I knew it would
be simpler to watch them online if I actually
wanted to! I wonder to what extent we might be
looking at the future of the physical book?"</li>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Blockbuster
fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">Just ten
years ago there were about 9,000 Blockbuster
stores.
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