Not only are the Mom and Pop bookstores in the US having a tough time, but who would have figured the demise of Borders. Closer to home, and sadder,
was the closing of the most comprehensive Book Store for English titles in Baja California, the San Felipe Title Company. Ed and Cat have stored their
40,000 titles and headed south to Puerto Vallarta. Their departure leaves an incredible literary void. Best of luck you too, and thanks for the
wonderful store.
Wow, always a must stop place in San Felipe though I hadn't recalled the actual name.
We see the small book stores as having almost no chance to survive many more years with the advent of internet shopping, with the exception being the
paperback sell/trade specialty stores.
After I buy a book at a book store I try to refrain from looking for it on the internet to see how much I might have saved.
Yes, bookstores are toast. Besides the electronic medium, Amazon and BarnesAndNoble.com pretty much ensure that.
Another casualty of electronic books are public libraries. While there are still quite a few people that use them, it's getting harder and harder for
municipalities to justify the expense of the brick and mortar.
Originally posted by GregN
Not only are the Mom and Pop bookstores in the US having a tough time, but who would have figured the demise of Borders. Closer to home, and sadder,
was the closing of the most comprehensive Book Store for English titles in Baja California, the San Felipe Title Company. Ed and Cat have stored their
40,000 titles and headed south to Puerto Vallarta. Their departure leaves an incredible literary void. Best of luck you too, and thanks for the
wonderful store.
I thought they closed shop several months ago?
Was a good little bookstore. We use to hit them after leaving Randy's Roadrunner website office (up above on the second floor off the malecon).
Big loss for SF
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
WOW.....this now makes twice in the same decade that I agree with Mr. Bill.
as said by someone with more talent than I " The times they are a changing"!
Mexico!! Where two can live as cheaply as one.....but it costs twice as much.....
Greg
I am sure that you will be glad to know that Jim and I are still in the book business and that our bookstore is still open!
BTW "Baja Legends" is still one of our best selling books...
So bring your kids so they will know what a bookstore is!
Before it expanded, then closed its doors, I felt that the San Diego Map Center was the best place to purchase my Baja books and maps. Virtual maps
and books have their place, but there is something about the vintage La Siesta Press titles and topographic Baja maps.
Since receiving "our" first Kindle ($139) in January as a gift from me to the esposa, I have spent somewhere over $250 for E-Books and am devouring
selected authors at a rapid pace.
Although, Amazon has 800k titles free or nearly so (99cents, 1.99 etc), the EASE and speed of buying ANY Kindle title hooks you pretty fast. In
addition to those "Cheap" books (Classics, Texts, etc numbering about 120 for me at present), I've blown through all of the John Grisham's I hadn't
read, Robin Cook, Michael Connelly and I'm working through Michael Crichton and Mario Puzo now.
When my wife didn't initially care for it, I started using it. Back in May, she started using it more and more which created a conflict and I bought
a second-one. Same model, BUT $25 cheaper ($114) because it contains advertising in the OFF mode and on the Home screen at the bottom only. All
books on the account can be shared among ANY devices registered.
E-Reading is the future of reading.
For the most part.
When I bought Ann Coulter's latest from Amazon, I did buy the Hard Copy, although I may add the e-version.
Originally posted by Ken Cooke
Before it expanded, then closed its doors, I felt that the San Diego Map Center was the best place to purchase my Baja books and maps. Virtual maps
and books have their place, but there is something about the vintage La Siesta Press titles and topographic Baja maps.
I loved that place...didn't know it had closed. INEGI in Ensenada has some good stuff(if it hasn't closed too....).
Originally posted by Woooosh
Libraries will be next to go...
Yes, true enough. I am ambivalent about this. I enjoy libraries, though I don't actually check books out there any more (my wife does).
However, given the amount of money they cost to build, stock, maintain, staff, ect., the current economic situation that so many municipalities find
themselves in, and the actual use they get, they are getting harder to justify. I would/will be sad to see them go, a sign of changing times.
There are some memorably libraries that should never go away, like the New York library on the corner of 42nd street and 5th Avenue, in front of
Bryant Park (which has been cleaned up of all the needles littering the ground).
Here is a list of the bookstores that we do business with
Cactus Viejo in Malarrimo Restaurant, Guerrero Negro
La Tienda, Muleje
Baja Beach Company, Los Barriles
Hotel Palmas de Cortez, Los Barriles
Casa Leree, San Ignacio
Kuyima, San Ignacio
"If it were lush and rich, one could understand the pull, but it is fierce and hostile and sullen.
The stone mountains pile up to the sky and there is little fresh water. But we know we must go back
if we live, and we don't know why." - Steinbeck, Log from the Sea of Cortez
"People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care." - Theodore Roosevelt
"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them or to them." - Malcolm Forbes
"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others
cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." - Jim Rohn
"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." - Cunningham's Law
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