Michael Martinez wrote:
>
> At 04:44 AM 1/2/01, you wrote:
> >Also, lets face it, reading is currently down in the USA, given television,
> >video and now DVD.
>
> I don't know how much reading might be down, but we published something
> like 75,000 new books last year.
Y'know, I hear this very point belabored every now and then and I have
to ask, "where's the beef?"
Speaking solely for Colorado, mind you, a few years back, all we had was
the Waldenbooks or B Daltons in the malls with very little to offer -
selection wise. Now, we've got huge stores like Barnes and Noble,
Boarders, and Media Play with truly vast selections, even into ephemera
you'd only find in libraries before (just picked up a copy of Wolfram
Von Essenbach's 'Parzifal' and had to choose between a few editions at
that)....not to mention the big boy, Amazon.com...remember, they started
only with books. If we truly live in a supply-and-demand economy, then
it would appear that book reading has vastly increased in the past
decade or so judging solely from the type of warehouse like stores
outdating the near-newstand Waldenbooks type stores.
Kent
