‘Dear treasured customer’: We are all aware of e-commerce’s ability to take over our everyday lives, bringing buying, selling, trading and more, at the comfort of our fingertips. However, as a fan of independent bookstores, I have to break this to you: These online platforms are, at the same time, taking away literature from our vicinity. A quaint bookshop tucked away in one corner of Srinagar’s Lal Chowk, Bestseller, known for its rare collection of English and Urdu classics, brought down its shutters on April 19, citing dwindling reading habits and fierce competition from e-commerce websites. Sounds unfair, right? 32-year-old Mohammad Saniyasnain, whose father Sonaullah Chiloo opened the store back in 1985, shares with The Indian Express: “Why would anybody come to us when he can get the book delivered at home without a hassle? I also think the new generation is not inclined towards book reading.”

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