tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-529575095156315075.post349276907870531718..comments2024-02-09T12:12:37.636-08:00Comments on best minimum wage job a middle aged guy ever had: The Rise and Fall of Books.Duncan McGearyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857388833850939721noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-529575095156315075.post-86089968323796337012009-01-27T17:56:00.000-08:002009-01-27T17:56:00.000-08:00Interesting question! I buy them. it would be chea...Interesting question! I buy them. it would be cheating to read them then return them to the rack.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-529575095156315075.post-29883939691008568742009-01-27T17:03:00.000-08:002009-01-27T17:03:00.000-08:00I think, Mr. McGeary, that you are on the right tr...I think, Mr. McGeary, that you are on the right track about the faltering of B&N, but without enough cynicism and without considering the possibility that it's the entire publishing industry that is going to topple, and that the vast majority of our citizens won't miss it, as long as they can pick up the latest romance or detective story at Walmart (aside -- the hyphen is gone!), Walgreens, or big grocery store. And these books will be written with an ever-more-prurient bias and an ever-simpler vocabulary and construction.<BR/><BR/>This started a long time ago and is the result of having a publishing industry controlled and manipulated by an evil core group determined to do three things: Continue with their despicable nepotism, continue to grind their cultural and political axes by the same method of nepotism, and to squeeze every penny out of the industry until they kill it. Yes, evil is the right descriptive term for our publishing industry.<BR/><BR/>Beginning in the 1970's, the publishing industry started laying off editors and replacing them with those who will work for less. You can mark the decline of the professionalism of the industry with the decline in our educational system. Both are puppets. And yes, I am very much a conspiracy theory fan.Olde Dame Penniwighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11871888334179316997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-529575095156315075.post-4120620882536959322009-01-27T16:43:00.000-08:002009-01-27T16:43:00.000-08:00There is a reason why the neighborhood news stand ...There is a reason why the neighborhood news stand (and magazine stands don't exist). It is called a subscription if you buy them, it is called a waste (of money and space) for the business where you read them if you don't/RDChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13033979029490801023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-529575095156315075.post-85550659481328628902009-01-27T14:42:00.000-08:002009-01-27T14:42:00.000-08:00Do you read some of them there? Or do you buy the...Do you read some of them there? Or do you buy them all?Duncan McGearyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02857388833850939721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-529575095156315075.post-25390362268005052992009-01-27T14:27:00.000-08:002009-01-27T14:27:00.000-08:00I buy used books either from stores or from Amazon...I buy used books either from stores or from Amazon. <BR/><BR/>B-but where will a fellow go to buy the latest issues of The Economist, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, The New Yorker? To supermarkets? Not likely. None of Bend's book stores carry magazines. <BR/><BR/>I guess it's stupid to want B&N to stay open just for magazines. I can always subscribe, using any one of the dozen subscription offer cards that fall into my lap and all over the floor whenever I open a magazine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com