This morning, I scanned the headlines in tech news in the hopes of finding something to write about that wasn’t about Twitter, Facebook or the iPhone. That’s when I saw this article on Reuters by John Gaudiosi. Gaudiosi asks the question “will digital downloads kill the videogames store?”

I’m bemused by this question because it comes up with every kind of media you can imagine. Will digital downloads kill the record store? No, not really, because big box stores pretty much killed the record stores (I love the few independent record stores we still have in Atlanta). But will digital downloads kill the box stores in turn?

I suppose the easiest way to answer that question is to look at other examples. How about print? Well, as we all know, several newspapers and magazines have been going out of business over the last couple of years. While you can’t lay the blame solely upon the Internet for the fate of the papers (despite the claim that Craigslist is killing papers by stealing revenue from classifieds), it’s pretty clear the Web plays at least some part in the decline of print journalism.