If you’re over 40, you undoubtedly remember Time-Life. Among other things, they’re the people who put out compilations of much-loved music. To this day, my favorite Christmas music tape (yup, it’s a cassette) is the Time-Life Treasury of Christmas that I picked up in 1986.

They also published great history books that my parents bought for me when I was a kid, and the brand still sells DVDs of classic TV shows, documentaries and more.

Unless you’ve been living under the rubble of a demolished Borders bookstore, you know that the book business is no longer what it used to be. Certainly people are buying more books than ever before, it’s just the market has changed significantly since the advent of Amazon.