NYC Will Soon Have No Small Bookshops
My parents always told me “You don’t make money working for other people”, but it’s getting more and more difficult to run a smaller local business in New York City. And bookstores seem to be hit the hardest. We saw the demise of the Murder Ink/Ivy’s Books store on the Upper West Side. And I have learned that Lectorum, a large Spanish-language bookstore, that was my lifeblood when I took Spanish literature classes at Hunter, is going totally internet. Although this is a smart decision on Lectorum’s part, only a biblophile like me, knows the sheer pleasure of hanndling a book, and feeling the cover and the pages.
Looks like most of us will all have to get used to working for “other people”, and satisfying our book-loving fetishes at the library, Barnes and Noble, and Borders.
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I read about that in the NY Times.
It’s a sad sad thing - I love smaller bookstores.
I guess this helps answer the losing it’s soul question. It’s pretty much a national trend, and yes Pittsburgh is losing them too.