Today's Mag B&C features Shoma Patnaik with Bargain Book Hut in Porvorim---Does not give address. Photo evidence is there. Someone told me The Mall de Goa is planning this very thing.....................JEG
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all: > > At the workshop on 'creative industries' held in Panjim on the weekend, one > of the GBC-related ideas that came up was this: how about a once-a-month > market for second hand books being launched? > > The Director of Arts and Culture Prasad Loliyekar and Central Library > Curator Carlos Fernandes were welcoming of the idea. One possibility is > holding the same at the foyer of the Central Library, allowing any > individual to spread a small number of books (say, what can be fitted on > one bedsheet) and either sell or exchange the same. > > Do you think it could work? If so, any suggestions you'd have to make? > Kindly share your ideas, suggestions and cautionary notes.... > > Of course, we are still in the dreaming stage here, but who knows, if we > keep repeating it often enough, it could well become a self-fulfilling > prophecy... :-) And a lovely bookish one at that. After all, who among us > doesn't have surplus books they'd want to dispose off (even if money is not > the main motivation here)? And, who would not like to pick up some more > tantalising books at a very reasonable price? > > Who knows, this might help to build the badly-needed book ecosystem in Goa > too. > > So, do you think Goa could have its own Nai Sarak-Ber Sarai-Daryaganj > (Delhi), Avenue Road (Bangalore), College Street (Kolkata), Fort (Mumbai), > Sector 15 (Chandigarh), Sunday Book Market at Abids (Hyderabad), all rolled > into one, even if on a smaller scale to start with? FN > -- > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > _/ > _/ Frederick Noronha | http://about.me/noronhafrederick | > http://goa1556.in > _/ P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter @fn Facebook: fredericknoronha > _/ Goa,1556 CC shared audio content https://archive.org/details/goa1556 > _/ > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ >
