No more middleman, no more bookstore. As the months passed, I inevitably found myself wanting to purchase new books. Sometimes I had no clue what I wanted to read next, so I would engage in the obligatory bibliophile field expedition to the local Borders. But every so often there would be times when I knew exactly what book I wanted. Let s look at it this way.
Book purchasing no longer involves visiting a physical space.
Browsing, reviewing, shopping, and reading can all be done in the comfort of your own home. Getting an education. It may be awkward to admit it, but in a systems processing sense, a school is nothing more than a middleman in an educational transaction. That s the way it worked, largely because that s the only way it could have worked. Another physical place, another transaction.