Elegy for the video store

As Netflix and on-demand change the way we rent movies, the corner video store is fading out. It's a greater loss than you might think.

The aptly named Best Video, in Hamden, Conn., is an example of the increasingly rare independent video store. (Thomas McDonald/New York Times) Thomas McDonald/New York Times

By John Swansburg

July 9, 2006

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IN AN ESSAY recently published in The New York Times Book Review, John Updike noted that, ``mirabile dictu," the small New England city where he lives still holds an independent bookstore-"one of the few surviving in the long coastal stretch between Marblehead and Newburyport." (Full article: 1115 words)