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Anyway, discuss ( hoping to keep the discussion insult-and DRM-debate free).
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Well, that didn't last too long.
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I'm sure, Stonetools being who and what he is, him starting this thread was somehow a setup for a post defending usage restrictions, cabal pricing, or the publishing industry at large. I'll pre-empt that: they're not the same, Stone. They're not even close to the same. They have nothing to do with each other. I don't act the way I do because some publisher or store owner told me to do it that way -- I do because it's morally right. The positions you advocate are not. Let's leave it at that.
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Thanks for pissing in the swimming pool. I'll be the bigger man and let it pass.
I'm thinking that there are several categories of books that work better as pbooks:
*children's books
*photography books
*art books
*crafts books
*how-to manuals
*oversize books
Can you build a viable bookstore model around just these books? Anybody in the business can chime in here.
There was also talk on the Shatzkin thread of making the bookstore a kind of community center. In the Washington DC area, the Politics and Prose Bookstore thrives as a kind of political discussion center. Hands on and high touch may be the salvation of some. I think , though that "only a remnant will be saved".