Culture may close the book on shops

Contra Costa Times ^ | 6/22/6 | John Simerman

[Tax-chick]

This just makes me want to run a business analysis and see what their problem *really* is. Gosh, it's been a long time since I've done that!

I like to go to the bookstore with a notepad and write down the titles I want to order at the library :-).

[Revolting cat!]

Excellent, but read Embers by the same author first.

[Mamzelle]

OK--will check it out. Right now I've started "Foucault's Pendulum" (late to the party) and I have discovered one nice thing about the nexus of technology and the Good Read...it's mighty convenient to have wikipedia and dogpile running on wireless next to the chair while reading "F'sP"--there are piles of arcane cultural references which would otherwise leave me in the dust.

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The computer system at Cody's Books on Telegraph Avenue, a few blocks from the UC Berkeley campus, told him to ship back Emmanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason."

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.

[RedStateRocker]

I can unequivocally state you are wrong.
I have and have friends who have read entire ebooks.

Now if you were to say most people don't, or that they are not popular yet, that would be a fact I could not argue with, but I can state, and prove with 100% certainty that some people do read ebooks.
Respectfully

[RedStateRocker]

" Not to argue, but maybe quibble a little, Queen Adrienne rules, and Honor makes sure it stays that way! ;) "

Oops, my bad. Let me restate it: Honor Harrington kicks some serious tail. I read less and less SF as time goes by but Weber truly combines much of what there is to like about Forester and Heinlein; duty, honor, country great understanding of military tactics (and how politics can drive them) and characters with character.

[grey_whiskers]

Don't you mean this one?

(The Free Republic version, no doubt...)

Cheers!

[Dumb_Ox]

I've often thought someone should open one catering to "righty's". Might work...might not but it's worth a try.

Before my time, the John Birch society used to have a chain. I forget its name.

I'm in the "read it online" or "order it more efficiently on-line" categories now. My tastes are so arcane I know that B&N typically won't have a copy in-stock.

Some public libraries have recent books free on-line through companies like NetLibrary. The better programs let you access the books from home. I'm re-learning a programming language using their system.

[Old Student]

"Oops, my bad. Let me restate it: Honor Harrington kicks some serious tail."

No argument from me there. I still like Heinlein's juveniles, but his "adult" material got way too adult for me. I prefer my pornography in braille, and rather seriously monogamously. We recently decided (spouse and I both) that we didn't need that trash around the house anymore, and dumped several copies (we normally have two or more of each book we really like) in the garbage where they belong. My, how tastes change as you grow up. (Or maybe just as you grow older, I suppose. Not that it looks like it worked that way for RAH...)

[RightWingAtheist]

The popularity of audiobooks will grow with an aging population of bibliopaths who will no longer be able to read text visually, and will have to rely on them for their literary fix.