{"id":13230,"date":"2009-02-11T21:58:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T04:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2009\/02\/11\/bricks-and-mortar-and-paper.html"},"modified":"2013-06-04T22:43:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T04:43:37","slug":"bricks_and_mortar_and_pap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/11\/bricks_and_mortar_and_pap.html","title":{"rendered":"Bricks and mortar and paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doyce posts<\/a> about a Publetariat<\/a> article on the dire writing on the wall viz bricks-and-mortar chain bookstores. An interestng read, and Doyce ends up with asking …<\/p>\n

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When was the last time you were in a Borders or Barnes and Noble? I can’t remember either.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Actually, I can. I was at the downtown Denver B&N just this lunchtime.<\/p>\n

I can’t argue that’s a fully and perpetually sustainable model, but I like bookstores, and not just indie hole-in-the-wall places (which have their own charms and disadvantages), but the big, soulless chain bookstores — Borders and B&N. I like browsing through sections I like, much larger than what I can find at Target or Wal*mart, and seeing, much faster than I could browse on Amazon, an array of books that I can peruse. I also like being able to pick up a book, walk to the front of the store, hand them money, and walk out, reading it right then and there. Even though I’m an Amazon Prime customer (free two-day shipping on everything), you can’t beat that kind of instant gratification.<\/p>\n

Is the selection as good as Amazon? No, but it’s often good enough. Are the prices better? Definitely not. But the convenience and serendipity factors are mighty counters to that, for me at least.<\/p>\n

Now, I suppose if I were a Kindle user, I could get around the convenience factor (since you can download books wirelessly) — but I suspect I will be a very later adapter to the e-book model. I don’t want to rely on a single device (which can break or be misplaced) to read stuff. I don’t want to rely on DRM restriction on what I ostensibly own. I want to be able to loan books to friends. I want to be able to give away books that I’m not reading any more. I want to have different books downstairs, in my briefcase, in the bathroom — or two or three of them — and hop to the at any time. I want to browse through the books on my shelves, rediscovering old friends I haven’t seen for a while. I want to see gift inscriptions inside of covers.<\/p>\n

So, while I do buy the majority of what books I have through Amazon (and there are some mighty advantages to that whole model), I don’t see not<\/u> going to bricks and mortar stores any time soon. They just have too much to offer I can’t get elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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