3 ms·
The number of independent bookstores in the US has been consistently rising for the past 10 years. https://www.statista.com/statistics/282808/number-of-indepen
by harryh 8y ago
The number of independent bookstores in the US has been consistently rising for the past 10 years.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/282808/number-of-independent-bookstores-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/282808/number-of-indepen...
- crispyambulance 8y agoPerhaps, but are these places like the magnificent but now gone St Mark's Books (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mark%27s_Bookshop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mark%27s_Bookshop) or are they just christian bookstores and comic book shops?
- harryh 8y agoThey're regular bookstores. There has been a lot of press on this sort of thing. This article is representative: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/once-endangered-bookstores-are-booming-again/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/once-endangered-bookstores-are-...
- sbzodnsbd 8y agoWhat’s the problem with Christian or comic bookstores? Do the same problems apply to the Muslim or Jewish bookstore in my neighborhood? Should I be concerned with them - there’s funny symbols! (I don’t think there’s a Christian bookstore)? Does St. Thomas Aquinas, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky belong in “Christian” bookstore, or in a “normal” bookstore? If in a “Christian” bookstore, do you have a problem with Tolstoy? If in a “normal” bookstore, is Tolstoy’s work no longer Christian? Is “Persepolis” bad literature for being a comic book?