Heather Reisman announced last week that "edutainment" will be a new focal point of her Indigo Books & Music chain – evidently, that’s a euphemism for the more profitable products made of materials not limited to ink and paper. A report from Canadian Press noted the non-appearance of Jean Chretien: A Legacy of Scandal by blogger Paul Tuns from Indigo store shelves after the point was raised on The Western Standard’s site The Shotgun, although Tuns made clear there wasn’t "a nefarious Liberal plot to keep my book out of the hands of Canadians", or equating his effort with Mein Kampf or The Anarchist Cookbook … just a stocking policy that’s inhospitable to smaller publishers. The fewer books carried by Indigo means fewer incidents of the internal combustion depicted in BookLust blogger Patricia Storms’ recent strip The Shadow of Too Many Books – Indigo’s increased supply of scented candles and sugar-free biscotti is bound to result in less head explosions per capita than the latest vomit-inducing story from Chuck Palahniuk.
A legacy of lattes
October 6, 2005 · 1 Comment
Categories: bookish
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Tom Gray // October 6, 2005 at 4:01 pm |
One thing about Amazon that cannot be denied is that it has books. One orders them and they are in the post office in a surprisingly quick time. The same cannot be said about other book sellers.
Amazon’s website also creates the communities among book buyers that were the forte of the small book store.
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