question of the day: How can we save bookstores?
Or is it already too late? Have the big chains already killed off most of the really interesting independent bookstores? If we do save bookstores, what will they look like in 20 years, or 100?
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Or is it already too late? Have the big chains already killed off most of the really interesting independent bookstores? If we do save bookstores, what will they look like in 20 years, or 100?
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
I just read something on eBookNewser that made me go, Well, duh!…
Plus: Should Hollywood stop pandering to dorks? Does the flopping of Mars Needs Moms spell the end of 3D? Why is Katie Holmes failing to charm America?
It’s Read an Ebook Week, starting today and running through March 12. To celebrate, I’m offering my riff on one of the most quotable, most adventurous, most romantic movies ever at a discount…
Plus: too many depressing links about the Charlie Sheen feeding frenzy…
Plus: Kelsey Grammer’s marriage ruined by Fox News; Wikileaks nominated for Nobel Peace Prize; why so few women writers at Wikipedia and major magazines?; more…
I’m certainly giving my Kindle a workout, and expect that I will read more classic novels this year than I have recently, because it’s so easy to find and download good e-versions of them… and because I’m feeling a little guilty about selling and giving away so many books…
Plus: Walking Dead renewed; Sally Hawkins, action star?; Netflix streaming is superpopular; more…
Plus: the deaths of Stephen J. Cannell, Sally Menke, Gloria Stuart, and Tony Curtis; Armond White is at it again (and so are his adversaries); Chris Noth thinks critics killed Sex and the City; and on and on…