That's the message coming out of this year's Canadian Booksellers Association Conference . Writers, publishers and booksellers gathered in Toronto for the two-day conference over the weekend.
Booksellers can either adapt to the new wired world or go the way of the eight-track.
That's according to Paul Hoffert , director of CulTech Collaborative Research Centre at York University. Hoffert was one of several speakers at this year's conference who talked about the influence of technology on bookselling. But Hoffert says it's also going to be an opportunity for the booksellers who are quick to adapt. Hoffert says this brave new world is coming soon to your local bookstore. That is, if the local bookstore survives in the face of its online competition.