Comments on: Imagine this:

By: Sarah Sheard

Sarah Sheard — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:36:39 +0000

I understand your dismay at the arrival of ebooks and the imminent emergence of print-on-demand ebookstores but I doubt that the older style of bookstore you’re describing (sounding more like a second-hand/antiquarian bookstore) will be killed off by ebooks. There will likely always be treebooks and certainly antiquarian treebooks. There will be new treebooks printed on demand as well as ebooks. Don’t please fear that a new technology will supplant all previous ones. Books are here to stay.
Sarah

By: Loesia

Loesia — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:14:15 +0000

Honestly this sounds like hell to me. I understand the convenience factor, but this eliminates the possibilities of walking into an overcrowded and musty bookshop filled with volumes which date back to the 1880′s. No more perusing shelves and amassing a stack of books to be sampled and savored in some corner of the store. No more old book smell, yellowed pages, or satisfying thump of a book closing. No more hardcover books and the sense of security they bring. You can take a good hardcover anywhere and be confident that the corners may become slightly rounded, or that the cover might get scratched, but the pages within will remain as pristine as when you first bought it.
In an age of constant production and newness it’s hard not to cringe at the thought that in my (so far very short) lifetime no one will think twice about the fact that books are supposed to hold a sense of history in addition to their text.

By: Sandra Campbell

Sandra Campbell — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:25:15 +0000

Thanks for the vision. Inspires me to join the imaginings.I’m stepping into new shoes that will take me out of feeling at the mercy of the big guys. The journey begins. Sandra Campbell