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Twelve reasons for the death of the small/independent bookstore.
4. Writers–who sell their souls to be published, write what is already being written or choose the new for its own sake, opt to feed the demands of editors rather than do their own best work, place style over substance, and bear no standards–for boring their readers unto television.
(From Backwards City)
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March 27th, 2006 at 11:22 am
Wow, I guess that literally everyone and everything in the world is to blame for the decline of the i
independents. That might be the most depressing thing I have ever read.
March 27th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
It reads like something written in the heat of the moment. There are two real culprits for the closing down of independent bookstores — corporatisation of book-selling (Chapters and Wal-Mart being obvious examples) and the emergence of technologies like television and computers that have taken over the jobs once exclusively held by print media alone (transmitting news, telling stories etc.) But when your store is closing and you’re cutting employees and you’re otherwise making business decisions that you have been putting off for as long as you could stomach, you might become overly willing to blame everyone and anyone. Owners of independent record stores or non-franchise restaurants might probably have similar far-reaching complaints.
March 27th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
This list came to light about a year ago. It does sound like heat of the moment
but if the independent bookstore I work in goes under (doing fine, thanks) I trust we’ll
never release anything quite so bitter. We felt sorry for them, sure but wow; after
blaming writers and the public, who’s left?
March 28th, 2006 at 10:08 am
yup. everyone’s fault except incompetent business people. thank god there’s no personal responsibility for anything any more. It’s all someone else’s fault.