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Originally Posted by Charlatan
You should come to Asia. Most bookstores shrink wrap their books.
Shakran is right though, the larger bookstore chains brought in comfy chairs and coffee and encouraged people to lounge and read.
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and their MAGAZINES!!!!!!!!!!
I can't tell you how infuriating it was...
One of the dirty secrets of bookstores is that some if not many of the books are on a consignment type basis. The bookstore gets to return it to the publisher for credit by tearing off the cover and sending a stack of covers to the publisher. Newsstands work this way as well for magazines and newspapers.
I was actually thinking about this when I was reading this article Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity about
. While it is true that something there is free, there are other items that are not which get purchased like the coffee.
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Last edited by Cynthetiq; 07-06-2009 at 12:25 PM..
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