Re: Borders up for sale?

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>> On Mar 20, 3:10 pm, Charlton Wilbur <cwil...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> >>>>> "GUCS" == Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy
>>> >>>>> <tausti...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>     GUCS> Andrew Plotkin <erkyr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>     >> (Pandemonium remains my first stop. Not because it's an
>>>     >> independent, but because it's cool and carries neat
>>>     >> stuff.) 
>>>
>>>     GUCS> Ah, but are those really different?
>>>
>>> Yes.  I've been in independent bookstores that harangued me
>>> about how evil Bush was from the end of every bookshelf, and
>>> that carried only literary fiction and even had a clerk that
>>> informed me of this when I (foolishly) asked if the store had
>>> a mystery or sf section. 
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>> I think you two are parsing that sentence differently. Where a
>> bookstore is (1) independent (2) cool and (3) a carrier of neat
>> stuff,  I think the original question was whether (2) and (3)
>> are really different qualities.
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> They could be.  A bookstore could have lots of great stuff and
> yet still be too annoying to deal with.  Perhaps the staff are
> very surly. 
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For independent bookstores, however, that is usually a very quickly 
self-correcting problem, and then you can buy books from them by 
the pound at their closeout sale.

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Terry Austin

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