Borderlands Books will stay open, thanks to cash from supporters

[Elusis]

And if you earn more money, maybe you can afford to buy more books.

[Elusis]

@art_carnage

Borderlands Books will stay open, thanks to cash from supporters

Here, let me correct that headline for you: Borderlands Books delays the inevitable, thanks to cash from supporters

Hmm, still lacks a certain something… ah, I’ve got it.

Borderlands Books survives tech-boom rent increase by selling libertarian dogma to local idiots

[Ryuthrowsstuff]

They actually stuck around for quite a while in the video/graphic design/audio business. Though they sort of disappeared all at once when thumb drives and external hd’s with bigger capacities got cheap enough. Minidisc also stuck around for an absurdly long time in that business. I was still seeing the odd bit of minidisc recorded audio in video work around 2010. And I still know some musicians and audio engineers who refuse to give up their mixing boards with integrated Minidisc recorders. For a long time there it was the affordable alternative to DAT.

[art_carnage]

@milliefink

I remember that it happened recently in Champaign-Urbana, with a local art theater that, in a similar way, went “co-op” and is now thriving –

When Amazon starts delivering live acting troupes to people’s door, then you’d have an analogous situation. Until then, not so much.

[pickleschlitz]

maybe all businesses affected by minimum wage laws should go to the membership model. I’m a member of Amazon Prime. Maybe Walmart could start a club.

[milliefink]

Um, no, it’s a movie theater.

[SpunkyTWS]

It’s almost funny now to think of how many libraries invested a lot in CD-ROMs because those were the way of the future. A few years after that I’d listen to a talk by a library director about how the internet would solve all library problems. Space would no longer be an issue because everything would be online and there’d be no need for physical libraries anymore. And spending could also be cut significantly because instead of buying a whole book and letting it languish on a shelf academic libraries could just buy a sentence or two, because that’s all researchers really need. The kicker was “All this could happen in as little as ten years.”

That was 1998.

[Skeptic]

@SpunkyTWS

It’s almost funny now to think of how many libraries invested a lot in CD-ROMs because those were the way of the future

I remember that crap, when the future of everything was going to be interactivity. No! I don’t want to “interact” with the novel I’m reading!

[OtherMichael]

Memberships. This is an interesting idea for a small store. It also reminds me of “wholesale-club” style memberships – paying to save at Costco, Sam’s, BJ’s, etc. (Full Discloure: my family has a BJ’s membership, and I still snicker at the name).

[OtherMichael]

Just because there’s an affiliate link doesn’t mean you have to buy it.

I use my Amazon wish-list to guide my interlibrary loan requests, in-person browsing, and gift-suggestions for others.

If people are so dumb and rich that they buy everything that is linked to on here… well, that’s their loss*, and BB’s micro-payment gain.

But, really, please stop already. You’ve beat this dead horse into a foul-smelling jam, and it doesn’t look like you’re getting ready to eat it anytime soon.

 

* Is it a net loss? Since they’re getting a nice book/cool tool/weird gadget/something you don’t approve of but they knee-jerkedly do.

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@Skeptic

I do worry about the retention of our culture, though, when the grand kids will find nothing but dead electronic devices in the attic, ones that took all the music, photos, books, writings and memories with them when they died.

The invention of writing killed the wide-spread use of the memory palace. I don’t see you complaining, like ancient greeks (or egyptians) , about that.

cf. Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media:

There was reluctance and opposition [to radio] from the world of the press. To those, this fact is quite as baffling as literacy is to natives, who say, “Why do you write? Can’t you remember?”

NB: A history of media technology scares

[bwv812]

@pickleschlitz

Maybe Walmart could start a club.

They could call it Sam’s Club.

[art_carnage]

@milliefink

Um, no, it’s a movie theater.

Ah, the phrase you were looking for is “art house theater”. “Art theater” isn’t really a thing.

[glenblank]

[quote=“art_carnage, post:52, topic:52307”]
“Art theater” isn’t really a thing.
[/quote] Don’t tell the folks in Long Beach:

Art Theatre of Long Beach

[milliefink]

@glenblank

Don’t tell the folks in Long Beach:

Nor the folks in Champaign:

The Art Theater Co-op

[art_carnage]

@glenblank

Don’t tell the folks in Long Beach:

Art Theatre of Long Beach

That’s the NAME of the art house theater. You do get the difference, right?

[Daemonworks]

@SpunkyTWS

And spending could also be cut significantly because instead of buying a whole book and letting it languish on a shelf academic libraries could just buy a sentence or two, because that’s all researchers really need.

As somebody who’s done his share of research, that’s terrifying.