tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18086590.post8259319282146547191..comments2023-12-23T05:12:55.809-05:00Comments on The Written Nerd: Comment: On Misperception and Making The WorldBook Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02896226559142059293noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18086590.post-19680508817252072222008-09-05T06:32:00.000-04:002008-09-05T06:32:00.000-04:00We sell cheap rechargeable laptop battery for most...We sell cheap rechargeable <A HREF="http://www.batteryfast.com" REL="nofollow">laptop battery</A> for most every notebook computer on the market. Since 1996, we have worked with leading laptop battery manufacturers around the world to design, specify, and build high quality laptop batteries. All our laptop batteries must pass stringent quality control tests that ensure they will work with your laptop computer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18086590.post-23194333588676424542008-02-15T13:39:00.000-05:002008-02-15T13:39:00.000-05:00Part of the doom-and-gloom about independent books...Part of the doom-and-gloom about independent bookstores, I think, has to do with a misunderstanding - or a refusal to understand - about the reason that bookstores succeed. It isn't just commerce and point-of-sale. We live in a culture that is highly suspicious of reading as an activity. It's considered solitary, intellectual, and downright misanthropic. The bookstore, in this view, merely exists to deal crack to addicts. <BR/><BR/>The social nature of literature - the pleasure of browsing, chatting, hearing works read aloud, etc. - goes unspoken because non-readers don't know it exists. <BR/><BR/>In this view, why would anyone choose to go to a store when they can just order off the internet? <BR/><BR/>While some social functions can be duplicated on the internet, they will necessarily be different. Not better or worse, but (hopefully) complimentary to those offered by bookstores.<BR/><BR/>Great blog, btw.Hugh Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11727664879813839362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18086590.post-49339413484402755062008-02-11T18:02:00.000-05:002008-02-11T18:02:00.000-05:00Oh, yes--please rant, especially when it means str...Oh, yes--please rant, especially when it means straightening out people's misperceptions on indy bookstores!kookaburrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01949942528797364654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18086590.post-83078161858549533732008-02-07T22:38:00.000-05:002008-02-07T22:38:00.000-05:00Well, our ace is us, the booksellers. We may close...Well, our ace is us, the booksellers. We may close a store, but then we open a store. <BR/><BR/>At the moment I'm in rapid negotiations to open another bookstore (I currently help operate two completely different, unrelated ones simultaneously) -- and the funniest thing is I just found out yesterday that on this new store's future cultural-institution-partner has a board of directors on which sits a key guy who himself used to run the programming at a bookstore that used to be across the street from the bookstore I owned way back in the early 90s, in Chicago. We're all still alive after all, although both those bookstores have long since closed. And we're still on point. <BR/><BR/>Any given bookstore is simply the place where some booksellers are doing our thing right now. So it is pretty funny how when a bookstore closes there's all this stuff about how "a bookstore has died" because of course the bookstore was merely an artifact of the activity of a bookseller, who presumably is generally still alive and will be kicking once she gets the wind back into her sails.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18086590.post-16161219363943247662008-02-07T05:56:00.000-05:002008-02-07T05:56:00.000-05:00Amen all the way! Thirteen or fourteen years ago, ...Amen all the way! Thirteen or fourteen years ago, when my bookstore was 40 miles south of where it is now, in the metropolis of Traverse City, Michigan, I went to the local community college where an auditorium was filled with people who had braved the weather to come see and hear a world-famous writer talk about how we would all soon be staying home and "meeting" in virtual space. Well, we could have done it then. He could have been on television, or the college could have set up a teleconference, saving him the travel from Texas. People want to get together, face to face, and people want to have and hold books, and my bookstore is 15 years old this year, and I've never had a trust fund. Go, girl!P. J. Grathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18086590.post-74662369553360785272008-02-06T19:51:00.000-05:002008-02-06T19:51:00.000-05:00Preach it!As a single woman who is opening her own...Preach it!<BR/><BR/>As a single woman who is opening her own store(!) in a few months...I am going to NEED my bookstore to make a profit so I can pay my own bills. This makes me vulnerable to the Chicken Little fear mongering - but it also pushed me to come up with ideas that'll make my store, and my financial future, better. <BR/><BR/>Like dusting off the law license so I can write wills and fix speeding tickets for extra income. What a way to support your neighborhood bookstore - with your DUI!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18086590.post-46151661968603318322008-02-06T14:23:00.000-05:002008-02-06T14:23:00.000-05:00I think that narrative was also determined in the ...I think that narrative was also determined in the 90s by the comments of some booksellers themselves, who, understandably, preferred to think that their loss of their livelihood (and, often, their passion) was due to failures on the part of the market, not failures on their part. <BR/><BR/>But for attentive observers, the past decade has made clear that well-run independent bookstores can still thrive. Good for you for fighting to get that word out there--and good luck demonstrating the new reality.Levi Stahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11094919454842047688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18086590.post-39664886860535068162008-02-06T14:15:00.000-05:002008-02-06T14:15:00.000-05:00I love it when you rant!I love it when you rant!Lance Fenstermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126088480309819787noreply@blogger.com