Opinion: Book sales up; yet bookstores struggle. Shop local. - Chicago Tribune

When I was a kid, there were maybe three kinds of apples — red, yellow and green — and none of them tasted all that good unless you put them in a pie. Call those red and golden apples "delicious" all you want, but you weren't fooling anybody. We ate them anyway, because you gotta eat apples, but now we have Honeycrisp and Pink Lady and Ambrosia and Gala and another dozen varieties readily available to choose from. People realized that all these varieties that had been around forever, but had been sidelined because those red, yellow and green apples were easy to grow and ship — not because they actually tasted good.