You are correct, Bruce. I meant "there's nothing like a good bookshop"; it was a positive statement.
The small independent bookshop is dying around here as a result of Amazon and other online retailers, but places like Canada's Indigo are a huge part of the problem. They are predatory and they undercut the little guy. Their selection is not better, in fact it's worse: all mainstream crap - just lots more of it. I love nothing more than going to one of our Book City stores (a small independent chain) and spending hours poring over the remainder tables. Some of the best books have been discontinued... Cheers, frank On 19 February, 2014 2:32:48 PM EST, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Igor Roshchin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Bruce, it's a fun shot. > >Thanks, Igor. > >> A few thoughts/comments: >> 1. It insipred me to post a PESO (see the message I sent a few >minutes >> ago. > >On my way to check it out ... > >> 2. The same way as in my photos (in that PESO), you have reflections, >> which are, I guess from the ceiling lights. > >Actually they are from the large floor to ceiling, wall to wall shop >windows. It was rainy outside that day so it's very diffuse light, >angled in at about 30 degrees I imagine. This bookcase faces the >windows about 6 feet from them. I should have had my polarizer on. > > >> Wed Feb 19 06:41:28 EST 2014 >> knarf wrote: >>> Nothing like a real bookshop. >> >> 3. Why? I've seen plenty of bookstores like this. > >Frank short-formed "There is nothing like a real bookshop." > >Around these parts they are becoming scarce quite fast. Pressure from >ebooks, largely. The book biz is changing radically and the owner of >this one is fed up. He's in his early seventies and is planning to one >day soon sell off all the stock in a fire sale, then close the store >and go home. And he is one of the last of the big used book stores in >Toronto. > >Even the big chains are struggling. The Heather Reisman empire (she's >the CEO of Indigo which swallowed up Chapters, Coles, WH Smith, etc.) >is in some trouble and trying to quickly reinvent themselves as a >retailer of baby clothing and other non-book goods. (She missed the >boat: Amazon did that years ago.) > >So enjoy your old fashioned book stores while you can. > > > >> Of course, the books on the side shelves do not look like what you >see >> in the big chain stores (B&N). But you frequently see that in the >independent >> stores. One that I remember is St. Mark's Bookshop near Astor Place >> on 3rd Ave in New York. This is close to Ann, I am sure she knows >this >> store. >> http://goo.gl/NBqpFM >> >> Another one that comes to mind is the one that we visited with Rob in >> Sydney. (I have photos somewhere, but not on the web.) >> >> >> Igor >> >> >> On 19 February, 2014 5:18:10 AM EST, Bruce Walker <bruce.walker at >> gmail.com> wrote: >>>Another one dug out of my unposted archive ... >>> >>>http://flic.kr/p/keBNv9 >>> >>>Seen in Dencan Books and Magazines, The Junction, Toronto. >>> >>>K20D, DA* 16-50/2.8 @ 16mm/f:16, 6 tenths sec shutter, ISO 200; >tripod >>>Lr >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >and follow the directions. “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
