The Death of Small and Independent Bookstores

This link is from Catch.
Here is a list of twelve reasons for the death of small and independent bookstores. Pretty sad. The list starts halfway down the page. My favourite reason is reason number 9:
9. Teachers--assigning books because of topical appeal, or because of their own lazy familiarity, instead of choosing what is best; thus a tale about the teenage angst of a World War Two era prep school boy is pushed at students who do not know when World War Two took place--for failing to pass the torch of civilization to the next generation.
Here's the link.