The Los Angeles Times describes the struggles of Bay Area bookstores.
"I'd be really hard pressed to come up with a single social or demographic trend that is in favor of bookstores," said Tom Haydon, whose Wessex Books in Menlo Park was for decades the best secondhand store in the 50-mile stretch between San Francisco and San Jose.
Unable to find a buyer, Haydon closed Wessex in June 2005.
"It's a lost cause," he said.
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