tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post2730854673897759127..comments2024-03-14T18:09:09.667-05:00Comments on Do Some Damage: Indie Shoppe Patronizers: You've Got MailUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-2384436528617322632011-02-28T11:14:06.940-05:002011-02-28T11:14:06.940-05:00Sorry, i fall into the group that loves his kindle...Sorry, i fall into the group that loves his kindle and amazon prime. Local bookshops come off as trying too hard sometimes, and are annoying (to me) more often than not. I get my book recommendations via twitter or the web, which. I have found very satisfying. I have even bought weddle's content on my kindle because of a twitter rec.<br /><br />If an indie bookstore has a great local get together scene, they will survive. If not, it is probably over for them.<br /><br />Sorry about spelling and punctuation. I am on my iPad. <br /><br /><br /><br />Viva amazon!Spencerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16794843650736075696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-47092222117715343602011-02-28T10:57:27.290-05:002011-02-28T10:57:27.290-05:00cfawarman,
Sorry to hear about the downsizing. Ho...cfawarman,<br /><br />Sorry to hear about the downsizing. Hope that works out.<br /><br />An indie with 100,000 books? How cool is that? Yeah, sounds like that store is doing it right.Steve Weddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03876211586767139613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-55394687824841830692011-02-28T10:45:33.763-05:002011-02-28T10:45:33.763-05:00I've been working in an independent bookstore ...I've been working in an independent bookstore since it opened in 1983. I just got downsized. But yes, it is a kick ass bookstore: 10,000 square feet 100,000 books, used books, DVSs, CDs. We discount more titles than the local Borders (not on the closing list) that has been taking the wind out of our sails. We are making money (barely) and Borders ain't. We will survivecfawarmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13473399755315784792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-41202383334180044182011-02-28T10:38:47.291-05:002011-02-28T10:38:47.291-05:00Dear jjjjjacobs,
Congratulations. I understand tha...Dear jjjjjacobs,<br />Congratulations. I understand that the success of The King's Speech has made life easier for you.Steve Weddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03876211586767139613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-83454552455067768782011-02-28T09:54:39.223-05:002011-02-28T09:54:39.223-05:00You really want to have your book signing out on a...You really want to have your book signing out on a street corner, don't you? Why do you HATE indie bookstores? Meg Ryan is awesome. Er, was awesome. That fake orgasm was pretty hot. Now her face looks like some washed up pornstar's, lips all puffy and peepers like dead-doll eyes.<br /><br />U R mean.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14990463192701350032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-8377588063310527912011-02-28T08:30:58.248-05:002011-02-28T08:30:58.248-05:00Dana -- Yeah. The auto industry is a great paralle...Dana -- Yeah. The auto industry is a great parallel. I hadn't thought of that, because I'm a newspaper guy and have my head stuck up my own ass.<br />I firmly believe that the bookstores that continue to focus on bring together readers and writers -- readers and stories -- are the ones that will continue to kick ass.<br />Those that are treated as charity cases will die off.Steve Weddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03876211586767139613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-30238874117231641932011-02-28T07:55:56.352-05:002011-02-28T07:55:56.352-05:00I've been meaning to write something like this...I've been meaning to write something like this for over a year but lacked the huevos. <br /><br />I din't want to see anyone lose their jobs. (Well, I'd get over it if John Boehner and Mitch McConnell and Glenn Beck and a few more of that ilk had to draw what they consider to be extravagant unemployment checks). Still, you're right. The business plans were flawed from the start and have become untenable. The physical book is important for what it has come to represent, which are the ideas and stories inside. People passed along stories and ideas for a long time before there were books; books merely improved the process. Now it may be time to gradually move onto something else.<br /><br />Will books disappear altogether? Have parents stopped telling their children stories? I'll never stop buying books, but the mix of books to electron will continue to change.<br /><br />David Halberstam wrote in THE RECKONING that what crippled the American auto industry in the 70s (the last time they almost went tits up) was they forgot what they were in business for. They'd come to believe they were in business to make money. Halberstam posited that was incorrect, that they were in money to make and sell cars, from which the money would flow. BMW, Mercedes, and Honda understood that. The bean-counters' role is to support manufacturing and sales, not rule them.<br /><br />Print publishers have done the same thing, and it may lead to their demise in any recognizable form. It's too bad they're going to take so many good people down with them, but a lot of people drowned who had nothing to do with the Titanic's iceberg troubles. it's the way of the world, and refusing to accept it won't change anything.Dana Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350344882342624735noreply@blogger.com