photo of bookstore that wants you to buy from them instead of amazon

[orleans]

(from the other 98% on fb)

[ShazzieB]

1. What is the store's actual name?

This is an impressive display, but insufficient information. I might look them up if I knew what they're called.

[blogslug]

2. Greenlight Books

https://www.greenlightbookstore.com/press-media

[orleans]

5. thanks for this link nt

[Joinfortmill]

3. Love book stores

[NJCher]

6. Very clever

From a marketing standpoint. It hits all the important points: the space thing, the packaging waste, the reminder that with every purchase, bezos becomes richer.

[dchill]

7. I used to go to a lot of bookstores...

...that are now closed.

[Demovictory9]

8. in southern California Starbooks pushed out the indies, then Barnes and Nobles pushed out Starbooks

then with amazon, a lot of Barns and nobles closed.

[Midnight Writer]

12. Me, too. I could spend a day in a bookstore.

I'd make a weekend trip to Chicago, or St Louis, or Indianapolis, and make a circuit of local bookstores.

They are all gone now.

[North Shore Chicago]

9. I miss book stores, libraries.

The most unique smells, of old and new books.

A pleasant memory for me was the Bookmobile coming to my elementary school, I would do the 50 yard dash to be the first for Curious George.

[Klaralven]

10. I always check the county library online catalog before I order a book

[bif]

20. They got rid of the libraries where you live?

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Agree 100%.

[Hotler]

13. This.....

If you want Amazon to be the world's only retailer, keep shopping there.

[bif]

14. Or buy from Biblio.com or Alibris.com

They're both networks of independent bookstores. Biblio is strictly used while Alibris is new and used. I used to use Abe but guess who bought them?

[Amishman]

21. big fan of both, for anything but a new release its silly to buy new

when you can have used for half the price. I care about the words on the pages, not if the cover has a few creases in it

[ZonkerHarris]

15. I used to work in an office building right across the street from a mall that had a Barnes & Noble

I would spend most of my lunch hour in it 3-4 days a week.
Bought all my books there.
It's gone now.
There's an Apple store in their old space, I think now.
Century City CA

[Jose Garcia]

16. Do they sell ebooks?

[bif]

17. Check out Kanopy.com and Hoopla.com

With your library card, these two sites will let you stream movies and borrow ebooks for free. I'm not into ebooks, but it looks like they're worth checking out (no pun intended).

[FakeNoose]

18. The success of Amazon isn't from selling books

... it's all the other stuff they sell. They make it easy for small-time sellers to sell thru Amazon rather than a brick-and-mortar store that takes too long to build up traffic. When Jeff Bezos first started Amazon online, he was actually losing money selling books, or barely breaking even. It took a few years to iron out the kinks and to get people to trust online shopping. Now he's the king of retail.

I understand that book retailers are having a hard time competing with Amazon. But it's because they don't share Bezos' vision and they scoffed at what he was trying to do. He did it first and now he's the clear winner.

[Dial H For Hero]

19. Given that I do want the Moon to be colonized, does that mean they don't want me to buy from them?

[malaise]

24. Love it

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