For a comic take on one possible future for bookstores, have a look at this graphic from Angela Liao, graphic and Web designer and creator of the comic strip and graphic fun site twenty pixels (20px).
Angela has more fun visual ideas to interest and inspire—check out her take on “The Content Chicken and the Design Egg Problem,” for instance, or “How I feel when I put stuff on the Internet.”
And as for her idea on this potential future bookstore design—would it work? Who can tell? But if you see huge Kindle-linked touchscreens start to appear along bookstore walls, perhaps you’ll know who to thank …