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Post by Alan Petersen on Feb 7, 2016 16:23:54 GMT -5
The soon to be former executive of General Growth Properties.  |
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Post by Becca Mills on Feb 7, 2016 17:11:48 GMT -5
The one in Seattle makes sense, it's their turf, but I would be surprised they open 300+ bookstores across the country. I have to admit, it does seem like a weird choice to me, unless they're planning on really growing their publishing arm (right now, they have no brick-and-mortar outlet for paper books from their own imprints). |
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Post by Daniel on Feb 8, 2016 11:50:53 GMT -5
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Post by Alan Petersen on Feb 9, 2016 11:34:02 GMT -5
Interesting. Must be some truth to it. The other dude is probably backtracking because he realized he spoke about something he shouldn't have. I would love an Amazon store here. I go to my local bookstore, at least, a few times a month. It's right next door to the Peets coffee shop in my neighborhood so it's hard to resist. I love to peruse books, but prefer to read e-books, but I'll buy something every now and then, support and all that. They are independent but pretty big with over ten stores, Books, Inc. Their history is pretty amazing, going back to the gold rush days! They've been in continuous operation since 1946, they survived the Barnes and Noble/Borders craze of the late 90s (going bankrupt) and they've survived Amazon. But I would imagine they would be tweaked as hell if Amazon opens a bookstore in town! It's interesting how the media and trad publishers put the blame on Amazon for killing Borders and for mortally wounding B&N, did they complain about all the small indie bookstore those two huge box retailers of books killed in the 90s and early 00s? No matter what, I think small indie bookstores won't be going anywhere. |
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Post by Becca Mills on Feb 10, 2016 0:19:03 GMT -5
Wonder if they'll put one in the central valley. Can always hope ...
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Post by Daniel on Feb 10, 2016 8:08:56 GMT -5
Wonder if they'll put one in the central valley. Can always hope ... At least you can hope. Even if they do open 300 stores, I'll probably never see one. I haven't lived near a major bookstore since I was in San Diego in the early 90s. Amazon.com has been a blessing for me for a very long time. |
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Post by Alan Petersen on Feb 10, 2016 14:33:36 GMT -5
Wonder if they'll put one in the central valley. Can always hope ... At least you can hope. Even if they do open 300 stores, I'll probably never see one. I haven't lived near a major bookstore since I was in San Diego in the early 90s. Amazon.com has been a blessing for me for a very long time. Such a good point. For most of us city dwellers we forget that for a lot of people it's not even a matter of B&N/indie bookstore vs online Amazon, it's the only way to conveniently get things. My father grew up on a farm in rural Minnesota. They didn't get indoor plumbing until 1948. And to this day, it sits tucked away, a mile back from a gravel road with three farms in like a five-mile stretch. Nearest WalMart is 40 miles aways. Nearest town (pop around 300) is about ten miles aways. If it's wasn't for US Mail and the old catalogs and mail ordering they wouldn't have been able to order a lot of stuff we take for granted. And once they were used with those catalogs they came in handy in the outhouse. |
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Post by Becca Mills on Feb 12, 2016 1:18:19 GMT -5
I can get to a B&N relatively easily. It's maybe a 30-minute drive. But I try to take the climate-change stuff seriously and not drive when I don't have to ... and bookstores aren't "have to." I do miss it, though. The last place I lived had a truly beautiful B&N college bookstore. It was in the downtown, not on campus, in a restored 19th century factory building. Not the best selection of fiction, since a sixth of the store was text books, and half of it was college stuff, but they had enough stuff to do some decent browsing. It was a lovely place to spend some time. There's nothing like that were I live now.  So yeah. Thank goodness for Amazon and, even more so, for Kindle. |
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Post by ameliasmith on Feb 12, 2016 6:47:25 GMT -5
We have a smaller-than-it-used-to-be independent bookstore in town, which I visit from time to time. Because I buy most of my own books from Amazon, often in ebook form, I try to support them by getting all the kids' classmates birthday presents there.
I don't know where the nearest B&N is, but it's off-island for sure, which makes it inaccessible for all practical purposes, and if I go to the city there are still lots of independent bookstores in Cambridge (I think). They will probably/hopefully survive.
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Post by Miss Terri Novelle on Feb 12, 2016 9:06:04 GMT -5
Where Borders used to be in Bangor, they now have a BAM. I LOOOOOOVE Books A Million. They kept pretty much the same layout and shelving as Borders so it feels very similar and makes me very happy. I'm not a B&N fan. Never have been and I'm not sure why. If Amazon wants to open a store this would not be a bad place to do it. The Borders in Maine was one of the very few making a healthy profit when the chain closed. I'm proud of that. Proud that we Mainers still read a lot. BAM was packed last weekend when we went there. Warms the heart.
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Post by Becca Mills on Feb 13, 2016 3:10:45 GMT -5
I don't think I've ever been in a BAM ...
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Post by Miss Terri Novelle on Feb 13, 2016 9:20:56 GMT -5
They didn't have them in Syracuse but it's very Borders-like. Good prices, too.
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