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@cox_alex wrote: I'm new to the Bay Area, but I'm definitely going to try to make it by Borderlands before the doors close. I'm sad the owners will need to close the store, but I wonder if they have...
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@billstewart wrote: If you read the article, you'd note that if the owners lay off almost all of the paid staff and run the store themselves, they'll be making less than they'd make at a 40-hour...
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@albill wrote: For art books, I agree. I still buy special purpose art and architecture books. That said, the next George R. R. Martin novel is not something I'm going to buy as a physical book. Read...
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@popobawa4u wrote: What do you find are / would be the difficulties of buying digital books without using Amazon? Read full topic
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@SteampunkBanana wrote: Here's where we differ then. I'll get a copy from the library or buy a copy and sell it at a used bookstore so someone else can read it as well. I just prefer to have physical...
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@albill wrote: The difficulties to non-Amazon ebooks are largely selection and then price. A lot of publishers only make their ebooks available through Amazon. If not just Amazon, then it is Amazon,...
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@Boundegar wrote: I did, and you're right. I was speaking to the larger problem. Read full topic
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@FoolishOwl wrote: Serious question: aside from the obvious function of selling books, what functions does a bookstore perform, that could not be performed by a public library? Read full topic
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@Gleep_Wurp wrote: if nobody wanted to live in sanfran maybe rent prices wouldn't be so high! Read full topic
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@fche wrote: Are you suggesting that business owners - the ones who take the most risk - should pay themselves even less than minimum wage? Read full topic
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@fche wrote: ... and yet, from the PoV of readers, amazon's doing a wonderful job making books accessible and affordable. That side of the coin is also important. Read full topic
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@SteampunkBanana wrote: It's not worth the price to me. It's the same as WalMart, who working conditions I deplore and whose 'cheapest beats all" attitude has not helped American workers in any way....
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@albill wrote: SteampunkBanana: It means I buy fewer books than I would like but I don't feel like I'm lining the pockets of robber barons for the ones I do own. You mean like Hachette? Read full topic
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@PavePusher wrote: I hereby propose a new Award in literature: The Irony Cross. First presentation: to the owners of Borderlands. They certainly earned it the hard way. Read full topic
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@L_Mariachi wrote: The owners of the building? How many employees do you think it takes to maintain a three-story building with four apartments in it? In a high-demand area like SF, what landlords...
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@PavePusher wrote: Oh, you mean a LIBRARY. Yeah, it's been done. Read full topic
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@the_borderer wrote: Maybe rent wouldn't be so high if the market wasn't choking itself to death with its own invisible hand. Rent prices in San Francisco are starting to make the rent prices in...
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@lava wrote: Bingo - just came here to say the same thing. Property owners hire out all their labor to contractors until they get so big that in-house forces are more profitable. You have to be really...
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@omems wrote: I thought about that, but the differentiating factor would be the food, drink and conversation. No library I've been in had that, but I haven't been in that many libraries, and none in...
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