Interesting Links for 12-9-2011

[andrewducker]

• British flowers are the source of a new cancer drug. The way things are going cancer may be cured before I get old!
  (tags: cancer uk medicine)
• Amazon reportedly working on Netflix-like eBook service. Yaaaay!
  (tags: amazon ebooks)
• Banks face biggest shake-up for decades
  (tags: banks banking UK politics)
• UK household budgets face 10-year squeeze
  (tags: uk finance economics)
• Ikea are altering their Billy Bookcases, because people don't keep books on them. Oh, and some stuff about the ebook revolution
  (tags: ebooks publishing books)
• Echofi - Better Spotify Radio
  (tags: spotify radio music)
• HMV sales continue to plummet. Is the high-street music store dead?
  (tags: music shops hmv)
• The Living Bridges Of The Cherrapunji. Amazing photographs
  (tags: bridge india nature photos)

Comments

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

It's surely only a matter of time until HMV disappears form the high-street. WH Smith is another shop I doubt will be around much longer (except for probably the overpriced ones in train stations).

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I do think that the current depression is likely to push the system further in favour of buying online, and push more high-street stores into oblivion.

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

I think shops are going to struggle where getting your hands on the product before you buy isn’t important or where a strong service and advice element doesn’t exist.