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Re: Bookstores
By: Chiprocks1 Date: June 1, 2013, 12:33 am
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The last 'legit' bookstore we had here was Crown Books. It was
in one location for a long time and then it actually moved a few
blocks east, closer to my house where it stayed in business for
a nice long run before finally closing. That was something like
well over 15-20 years ago. Since then.....nothing.
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Re: Bookstores
By: Chiprocks1 Date: May 16, 2014, 3:33 pm
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So, I hit Bookstar this past week. TWICE in 3 days!!! I came
back to this thread to see exactly when the last time I was
there and was shocked to see that it has been almost a year to
the day since my last Splurge
HTML http://pennycan.createaforum.com/books/bookstores/msg19587/#msg19587.<br
/> ;D
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Re: Bookstores
By: Chiprocks1 Date: May 16, 2014, 3:38 pm
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I forgot to mention that I did hit Warwick's Bookstore over in
La Jolla a few weeks ago when I was picking up my copies of Paul
Stanley's A Life Exposed. The book store is right smack in the
heart of 'Snobville'. It's for the elite that like to flaunt
their weatlh. Just think of Rodeo Drive for San Diego. Anyway,
Warrick's is a really nice book store....but it's tiny as f*ck.
And for something that wants to pride itself on having a wide
selection, they didn't have anything that I was interested in
checking out on that particular day (besides Paul's book that
is).
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Re: Bookstores
By: Chiprocks1 Date: February 3, 2016, 2:29 pm
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[center]Amazon Plans Hundreds of Brick-and-Mortar Bookstores
HTML http://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-plans-hundreds-brick-mortar-234000787.html
I'm sooooooo down for this. I don't care if the books are
overpriced or not. Well, I do, but you get what I mean by this.
Given how so many of the bookstores have closed locally (there
are only 2 left within driving distance) and those are still too
far for me to go to on a regular basis. So, yeah I want to see
one of these stores open up near my house!!!! I miss the days of
just being able to walk down to a bookstore and browsing,
reading and ultimately buying whatever has my attention at that
moment. Those days are long gone. I really want to see this come
back in a big way. The last Big Chain Book Store (Crown Books)
we had here, which was a 5 minute walk to and from, disappeared
20 years ago. Sigh.
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Re: Bookstores
By: Neumatic Date: February 3, 2016, 3:18 pm
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I have... well, I have Parnassus, which is the locally-owned one
that Ann Patchett founded but it's limited selection, small...
it's nice but I never FIND anything there, you know? So it's
that and Books-A-Million, which I do like and usually pick up
stuff, but I miss the options. I miss Davis-Kidd like a mother
because that was TWO huge stories of books and the biggest
magazine section I'd ever seen, and we used to have Borders
which was also pretty good. But I miss having the OPTIONS.
Those stores were different enough, somehow, and far apart that
if you wanted to go to a bookstore, you could go to one and be
subjected to a different selection.
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Re: Bookstores
By: Chiprocks1 Date: February 3, 2016, 3:21 pm
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Hell man, I'd be grateful for a Mom and Pop Bookstore right now.
But then again, that wouldn't offer much in the way of options.
So, bring on the Big Chain Amazon Bookstore!!!!! Gimme!!
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Re: Bookstores
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 20, 2016, 10:40 am
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[center]Amazon Bookstore - Virtual Tour in Seattle
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWQJVE1i-0A
I just got an email this morning alerting me to the fact that
the Amazon Bookstore just opened at UTC. I didn't even know this
was in the works. I'm stoked. I want to go check this out.
Meantime, here's some other guys Tour of their version in their
city.
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Re: Bookstores
By: Mac Date: October 20, 2016, 11:37 am
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I've heard bits and pieces they were doing this.
I'd like one to come to my town.
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Re: Bookstores
By: Chiprocks1 Date: June 17, 2017, 1:43 pm
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On my walk to the Library this morning, I passed by a new store
location and saw that we now have a Comic Book Store. This is
the first Comic Book store we have had in my town in well over
20 years. The last time we had one, it was during the Image
Comics explosion. It went belly up when the Valiant Comics line
itself went belly up. So, it's cool we have one again, but not
sure what's inside as it was closed. Rising Sun Comics is the
name and everything in the window was Manga related. So, not
sure if this is a niche comic book store given the name on the
front. But if this doesn't have all things Comics, this store is
going to fade fast. Looking into the window, it looks to be a
decent size floor space to hold lots (i.e. all American Comics
as well as Manga stuff). I will go back down later to see what
they have. Would like to see Action Figures, Figurines included.
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Re: Bookstores
By: boyinblack80 Date: June 17, 2017, 2:08 pm
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dude that is awesome!! I will have to check it out.
what's the name of it?
or location?
never mind got it!
Rising Sun Comics
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