What Slate doesn’t get about bookstores

What Slate doesn’t get about bookstores
Bookstores enjoy a rare trait: To many, the store itself is seen as at least as important to the community as the product it sells. There are several reasons for this, which is why a Slate story published earlier this week called “Don’t Support Your Local Bookseller” has sparked a small online uprising of indignant bookworms. In the story — so paint-by-numbers counterintuitive that it almost reads as a parody of a Slate piece — Farhad Manjoo argued that people should buy books on Amazon and let independent bookshops wither. “Buying books on Amazon is better for authors, better for the economy, and better for you,” he writes.

December 16, 2011 by Uncategorized 2

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  1. Bibliofuture says:
    December 18, 2011 at 12:09 am

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  2. Anonymous says:
    December 19, 2011 at 5:18 pm

    Nice idea but it needs money to be involved
    Indignant bookworms who like standing around not buying anything?
    Oh yes, they will save independent bookshops.

    If people want to pay to keep their own bookstore that’s great, but they can’t expect to mooch off independent bookshops forever.

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