Maybe they should sue the guy who invented the Internet.
We could only hope!
Lots of good books are out of print while they keep publishing new crap.
Amazon's fault.
Do you want to give these bookstore operators heart attacks?
Get a bunch of friends together, and one by one go in to the store and ask if they have Ann Coulter's "Godless"
Nonsense about e-books. Nobody's going to read an entire book on screen. There was a good article about this just a couple of days ago. People will not read more than a couple of screenfuls of text, studies show. I keep finding two page articles about the Cinci Bengals printed out of some Web page every week of the year in the men's stall at this hi tech outfit.
When someone says something that dumb, it is time to stop listening. Neal Sofman said that early in the article and William of Ockham was one of the first to start rolling over in his grave.
I'm a big buyer of obscure out-of-print books, and while I enjoy browsing used bookstores when I have a lot of time on my hands, it's a lot faster to get specific books I want, and to find out what specific books I want, via the Internet. As for a store that is selling new copies of "classics", that's just plain silly. If anybody wants a copy of "Critique of Pure Reason", used.addall.com will connect them with it, starting at $2.50 for a used paperback, and $.00 for a used hardcover or new paperback. Even with shipping cost added, no bricks-and-mortar bookstore can turn a profit selling new books at that price. There's a colossal inventory of that sort of titles floating around, since so many college kids have been required to buy copies for decades. Nobody needs to be printing and selling new copies.
Stores which make a profit selling new books are not in the business of expanding minds, they're in the business of pushing sales of money-making junk, with a bit of worthwhile stuff tucked away in the corners as an afterthought. Used book dealers -- both the "save money by buying used" type, and the purveyors of expensive rare tomes -- are increasingly closing down their stores and staying home to do business from there via the Internet. It's more profitable to dump the overhead, and more enjoyable to work from home for many of them. A friend of mine works for a dealer of the expensive rare tomes type, who closed his shop a couple of years ago. He now works from his home where the inventory is now located, and my friend works mostly from her own home, just going to the business owner's home once or twice a week. Their business is as strong as ever.
Internet? I checked. It's available at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4280
You can't grep a dead tree!
Mark
How ironic, a victim of capitalism.
ping
The thing had sat too long on the shelf.
"When one of the greatest works of Western philosophy, if not the greatest, wasn't selling at Cody's, there's something wrong," said Ross, who announced last month that the store, a legendary locus for Berkeley's free-speech spirit, would close July 10 after a half-century.
Maybe Immanuel Kant is selling like hotcakes and the computer just got the spelling wrong.
Or maybe the rascally Randians are behind it all.