Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 03, 2020

The answer is, “Yes!”

You can do both at once. “alibis.com” is a web site that features books from independent, brick-and-mortar book sellers. I have found books there that you-know-who didn’t have.

Independent bookstores are succumbing faster and faster, seems like, to me. I admit I no longer directly support mine, being unable to read comfortably without the use of extra-large font, such as I can have right here on my laptop. I used to go in and wander around, just for the ambience, but it made me sad, so I stopped.

Hooray for John K. King! (Detroit — believe me, Jef knows…)

I stopped buying from local bookstores when they stopped carrying the books I needed to buy. The company “holding on to 6,342 allegorical year$” carries those books, so I buy from them. Funny how that works.

Allegorical year$?

That was a waste of 86,400 seconds.

Independent bookstores are soon to be but a fading memory, I’m afraid

I learned that in two minutes by playing around with Excel when I got curious one day. You really don’t need a book, you just need to know division.

Independent bookstores first started feeling the pinch from mall-based competitors Waldenbooks and B. Dalton. After a decade or so, those were driven out of business by big-box stores Barnes & Noble and Borders. Now Borders has succumbed, and Barnes & Noble is just clinging on, as Amazon has become the 8,000-pound gorilla in the field. Despite all this, there are niche markets remaining for fans of mysteries, science fiction, comic books, rare and used books, collectibles, etc. The independent bookstores haven’t gone away entirely, they’ve just transformed themselves to meet changing times.

That Shop Keeper knows that Time is the only Real Currency.

Been doing business with a local used book store for many years, even have a running credit on books I’ve traded in

Only problem I have is not enough sci fi and fantasy, same problem with every used book store I’ve ever shopped at

This store is networked with other used book stores and for the last six months or so I’ve been ordering the rare and out of print books I can never find through them

A few have been a bit pricey, but I’m getting the books I want and hopefully helping out a local small,business

betterworldbooks.com is a great online bookseller that donates a portion of its profits (I think a portion of each sale) to promote reading.

www.abe is another great site.

I think the generations of employees would ask you to stop reading every single book in the store and buy something, at some point. At least if you weren’t these freaks, anyway.

YES!!!

WOW !!