Some American retail companies are just now reporting what their sales were like for the 2019 holiday shopping season and at least for brick and mortar retailers, companies with physical stores, it wasn't great.
But despite the arresting symbol of cultural loss that burning a library represents, some brick and mortar libraries are suffering a decline in budgets or usage, in the wake of easy access to online alternatives.
You would have almost thought they were pulling down the cursed Bastille, such wild cries they raised, as the now useless brick and mortar were being hurled into the sea.