Comments on: Shooting The Supermarket http://booksquare.com/shooting-the-supermarket/ Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:02:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Booksquare http://booksquare.com/shooting-the-supermarket/comment-page-1/#comment-79607 Booksquare Thu, 26 May 2005 18:31:02 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/05/25/1361/#comment-79607 I'm not going to say anything, but it is a country that puts the first floor up higher than is traditional (g)... I’m not going to say anything, but it is a country that puts the first floor up higher than is traditional (g)…

]]> By: KathyF http://booksquare.com/shooting-the-supermarket/comment-page-1/#comment-79606 KathyF Thu, 26 May 2005 16:14:36 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/05/25/1361/#comment-79606 What they really don't like is the convenience of buying books anywhere but a bookseller, which is not where you go to buy newspapers or magazines--that's a newsagent, where you won't find books. (There are also lots of bookmakers, where you also find no books but lots of bookies, which do not have the same relationship to books that foodies have to food.) So if you want a novel and a copy of say, The Guardian, you have to go to two places--or to one of the "superstores" which are like our grocery stores (Kroger, Safeway, etc.) but smaller. You will also find plenty of articles in The Guardian bemoaning the rise of Tesco's, which is where I went today to buy groceries and The Guardian, silly me, when I could have gone to a green grocers, a DIY store (for lightbulbs) and a newsagents, and had thrice as much fun. They are very careful to guard against the unwanted upsurge of convenience here. What they really don’t like is the convenience of buying books anywhere but a bookseller, which is not where you go to buy newspapers or magazines–that’s a newsagent, where you won’t find books. (There are also lots of bookmakers, where you also find no books but lots of bookies, which do not have the same relationship to books that foodies have to food.) So if you want a novel and a copy of say, The Guardian, you have to go to two places–or to one of the “superstores” which are like our grocery stores (Kroger, Safeway, etc.) but smaller.

You will also find plenty of articles in The Guardian bemoaning the rise of Tesco’s, which is where I went today to buy groceries and The Guardian, silly me, when I could have gone to a green grocers, a DIY store (for lightbulbs) and a newsagents, and had thrice as much fun.

They are very careful to guard against the unwanted upsurge of convenience here.

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