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Tag: bookstore
The Cult London Bookstore That Might Just Throw You Out
The now sole owner of Collinge & Clark has just thrown someone out for eating Chinese food as they browsed through his small, one-room bookstore. And I begin to fear that everything I’ve heard about Oliver Clark, with his solemn speech and penchant for locking up at sporadic hours, is true (it is, incidentally). Yet […]
America's Westernmost Used Bookstore That Almost Wasn't?
Talk Story Bookstore in Hanapepe, Kauai, could so easily not have been. If it were not for the auspicious appearance of a double rainbow, convincing the now owners to pay rent on the bookstore premises instead of their flat, we wouldn’t have a story to tell. It wasn’t exactly the first time that Ed and […]
New York bookstore proudly displays books written by authors from ‘shithole countries’
Photo courtesy of Rough Draft A bookstore in New York proudly displayed a collection of books, many of them written by authors who are from parts of the world that President Donald Trump allegedly referred to as “shithole countries.” “I think that the positive statement of our collection of books stands on its own,” one […]
See the Stunning Chinese Bookstore That Looks Like an Endless Tunnel of Books
Zhongshuge, which roughly translates to “Bell Book Loft” (according to Mashable), is one of a chain of bookstores and libraries designed by Shanghai studio XL-Muse Architects that references the Chinese city of Yangzhou’s ancient architecture and the culture’s connection to water. Black, mirrored surfaces create the illusion that the bookstore is a tunnel that stretches […]
We visited Amazon’s first neighborhood bookstore and saw how it could change the industry for good (AMZN)
Daniel McMahon/Business Insider In case you missed it, Amazon.com, the world’s largest online bookseller, has been opening brick-and-mortar stores over the past few years, with the newest opening this week in Chicago’s upscale Lakeview neighborhood. Part bookstore, part electronics store, part coffee shop, the Chicago location is Amazon’s first physical store in the Midwest and […]
Amazon is finally opening a bookstore in the San Francisco Bay Area (AMZN)
Aly Weisman/Business Insider Amazon’s first bookstore in the Bay Area will be in Walnut Creek, a suburban town 20 miles east of San Francisco. According to the East Bay Times’ Jennifer Modenessi, Amazon’s bookstore will be located in Broadway Plaza, one of the high-end shopping centers in the region. In an email to Business Insider, Amazon’s […]
