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Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANT UPDATE)



 
 
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Old September 25th 09, 03:43 PM posted to rec.collecting.books,rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.books,rec.arts.mystery
Evelyn Leeper
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Default Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANT UPDATE)

The bookstore lists have moved!

Due to the imminent closing of geocities, the bookstore lists have moved
to my new web page as described below. Googling for these locations may
not work for a while, since they are new.

[Individual lists are constantly being updated.]

These lists are available on the Web at:

http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/bookshop.htm INDEX
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-can-e.htm Eastern &
Central Canada
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-can-o.htm Ontario
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-can-w.htm Western Canada &
Alaska
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-ne.htm New England
(other than Massachusetts)
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-bost.htm Boston
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-capco.htm Cape Cod
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-wmass.htm Western
Massachusetts
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-nyc-m.htm New York City
(NYC) (Manhattan)
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-ny.htm New York State
(other than Manhattan)
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-east.htm Eastern US
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-dc.htm Washington DC
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-south.htm Southern US
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-chi.htm Chicago
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-midwe.htm Midwestern US
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-cent.htm Central US
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-west.htm Western US
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-sw.htm Southwestern US
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-la.htm Los Angeles Area
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-diego.htm San Diego Area
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-bay-s.htm San Francisco
Bay Area (SF and north)
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-bay-b.htm San Francisco
Bay Area (Berkeley and east)
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-bay-p.htm San Francisco
Bay Area (Peninsula and south)
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-nw.htm Northwest US
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/uk-nire.htm UK (Northern
Ireland)
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/uk-scot.htm UK (Scotland)
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/uk-engl.htm UK (England,
not London)
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/uk-lond.htm UK (London)
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/uk-wales.htm UK (Wales)
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/eu-benl.htm Benelux
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/eu-fr.htm France
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/eu-de.htm Germany
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/eu-nord.htm Nordic Countries
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/eu-misc.htm Europe (various)
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/africa.htm Africa
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/asia.htm Asia
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/jp-north.htm Northern Japan
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/jp-tskba.htm Tsukuba/Eastern
Tokyo Suburbs
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/jp-tokyo.htm Central Tokyo
(excluding Jimbocho/Hongo)
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/jp-kanda.htm Central Tokyo
(Jimbocho/Hongo)
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/jp-hama.htm Western Tokyo
Suburbs/Kawasaki/Yokohama
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/jp-hama.htm Tokyo Suburbs/
Kawasaki/Yokohama
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/jp-cent.htm Central Japan
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/jp-kyoto.htm Kyoto
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/jp-osaka.htm Osaka/Kobe
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/jp-west.htm Western Japan
http://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/jp-misc.htm Japan
(miscellaneous information)

http://danny.oz.au/books/shops/ Australia
and New Zealand
(maintained by Danny Au)

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when I nod; my shadow does that much better. -Plutarch
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Old September 25th 09, 06:48 PM posted to rec.collecting.books,rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.books,rec.arts.mystery
Stratum101
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Default Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANTUPDATE)

On Sep 25, 9:43*am, Evelyn Leeper wrote:



UShttp://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-sw.htm* * * Southwestern


I'd move Texas from "southwestern" into "southern".
It is culturally Southern and only a little over
100 miles from Louisiana.

Among U.S. cities over one million, Dallas has what
must be the poorest selection of books. The Bookstop
locations that you mention around Dallas and Fort
Worth were absorbed by Barnes & Noble years ago, just
like their big downtown store in New Orleans, which
as it happened was the first of the chain I'd ever seen
in 1991 when I made a trip from California to the Florida
Keys. (Of course I knew about B&N stores in the
Northeast and their humongous store on Fifth Ave. in
Manhattan.) Although Dallas is well served by the two large
chains, namely B&N and Borders, which each has its
30,000-50,000 titles, there is only one used bookstore
of importance. That is Half Price which like Powell's
in Portland sells a combo of used and new. It is a
chain in central and western states. Its headquarters
store is in Dallas and is quite a draw. After that,
there's nothing. It could be Irkutsk. Texans
are not readers.



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Old September 25th 09, 08:11 PM posted to rec.collecting.books,rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.books,rec.arts.mystery
Lawrence Watt-Evans
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Default Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANT UPDATE)

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:48:22 -0700 (PDT), Stratum101
wrote:

On Sep 25, 9:43*am, Evelyn Leeper wrote:

UShttp://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-sw.htm* * * Southwestern


I'd move Texas from "southwestern" into "southern".
It is culturally Southern and only a little over
100 miles from Louisiana.


Not all of Texas is culturally Southern. Not all of Texas is
ANYTHING. It's an absurdly huge place, and the line between Southern
and Southwestern runs through it, not along its border.

And what's 100 miles from Louisiana? Texas adjoins Louisiana -- but
San Antonio, for example, is hundreds of miles from that border. Did
you mean Dallas?

To me, Dallas doesn't seem culturally Southern.




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Old September 25th 09, 08:42 PM posted to rec.collecting.books,rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.books,rec.arts.mystery
Bill Snyder
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Default Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANT UPDATE)

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:11:55 -0400, Lawrence Watt-Evans
wrote:

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:48:22 -0700 (PDT), Stratum101
wrote:

On Sep 25, 9:43Â*am, Evelyn Leeper wrote:

UShttp://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-sw.htmÂ* Â* Â* Southwestern


I'd move Texas from "southwestern" into "southern".
It is culturally Southern and only a little over
100 miles from Louisiana.


Not all of Texas is culturally Southern. Not all of Texas is
ANYTHING. It's an absurdly huge place, and the line between Southern
and Southwestern runs through it, not along its border.

And what's 100 miles from Louisiana? Texas adjoins Louisiana -- but
San Antonio, for example, is hundreds of miles from that border. Did
you mean Dallas?

To me, Dallas doesn't seem culturally Southern.


As a long-time resident, I'd say putting "Dallas" and "culture" in
the same sentence is highly questionable, unless maybe you're
discussing microbiology.

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Old September 25th 09, 11:34 PM posted to rec.collecting.books,rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.books,rec.arts.mystery
DouhetSukd
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re. Vancouver, W. Canada

University Bookstore (on the University of British Columbia campus--
take bus
#10 or #4 from downtown). "Lauds itself as the West's largest
bookstore. A great selection." The renovation is finally
completed.


I can laud myself as extremely intelligent, but that does not
necessarily make it so.

Seriously, UBC bookstore has a poor selection of scifi/fantasy, about
30 linear feet worth, sparsely stocked, with mostly big big name items
- if you get lucky you might just score an Anita Blake novel. That
was about 2 yrs ago and there were no renos underway at the time. I
don't recall the rest of the (non-college) book selection overwhelming
me either. IIRC there seemed to be a lot of knick knacks and
university collectibles rather than books.
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Old September 25th 09, 11:41 PM posted to rec.collecting.books,rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.books,rec.arts.mystery
Dave Hansen
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Default Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANTUPDATE)

On Sep 25, 2:11*pm, Lawrence Watt-Evans wrote:
[...]
Not all of Texas is culturally Southern. *Not all of Texas is
ANYTHING. *It's an absurdly huge place, and the line between Southern
and Southwestern runs through it, not along its border.


Hell, it's a whole 'nother country.

-=Dave

(It's a bumper sticker, or at least it was last time I visited)
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Old September 26th 09, 10:04 AM posted to rec.collecting.books,rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.books,rec.arts.mystery
Stratum101
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Default Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANTUPDATE)

On Sep 25, 12:48*pm, Stratum101 wrote:
On Sep 25, 9:43*am, Evelyn Leeper wrote:

UShttp://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-sw.htm** * Southwestern


I'd move Texas from "southwestern" into "southern".
It is culturally Southern and only a little over
100 miles from Louisiana.


An interesting sentence. I was actually referring to
Dallas, a city positioned a little over 100 miles
from the Texas - Louisiana border.

(A check with the Google map shows
165 miles road distance from downtown Dallas to
the Louisiana state line. Okay. "A little
over 150 miles from Louisiana...")

The follow-on discussion about whether Texas
is Southern is just silly. All of it is,
even border towns like Brownsville and El Paso.
Most of Texas's population live in the eastern third
of the state on the western edge of the
Deep South. The cultural capital of that
Texas is Dallas. Or maybe it is
Waxahachie. They're neighboring
county seats.

There is something of a cultural divide in
the state. South Texas, beginning south
of Austin and centered on San Antonio,
is more Latino and politically bluer than
North Texas. One could stretch
"Latino Texas" clear out to El Paso.

The big ethnic divide in Texas the
Southern state is between white and
black. The ethnic divide in South
Texas is between Anglo and Latino.
But everywhere in Texas, the Anglos have
the same plumb-dumb Texas drawl
that accompanies wide-eyed amazement at
questions that are totally irrelevant to life like,
"Do you know where there's a half-decent
bookstore around here?"

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Old September 26th 09, 01:12 PM posted to rec.collecting.books,rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.books,rec.arts.mystery
foad[_14_]
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Default Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANT UPDATE)


"DouhetSukd" wrote in message
...

I can laud myself as extremely intelligent, but that does not
necessarily make it so.


No, it certainly doesn't.

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Old September 27th 09, 05:10 AM posted to rec.collecting.books,rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.books,rec.arts.mystery
Butch Malahide
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Default Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANTUPDATE)

On Sep 25, 5:34*pm, DouhetSukd wrote:
re. Vancouver, W. Canada

University Bookstore (on the University of British Columbia campus--
take bus
* * * * #10 or #4 from downtown). *"Lauds itself as the West's largest
* * * * bookstore. *A great selection." *The renovation is finally
* * * * completed.

I can laud myself as extremely intelligent, but that does not
necessarily make it so.

Seriously, UBC bookstore has a poor selection of scifi/fantasy [snip]


Well, of course. If it's like most college bookstores, the only used
books it carries are textbooks for classes. Obviously the wrong place
to look for science fiction and fantasy; for that you want a used book
store.
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Old September 27th 09, 06:26 AM posted to rec.collecting.books,rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.books,rec.arts.mystery
Butch Malahide
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Default Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANTUPDATE)

On Sep 25, 12:48*pm, Stratum101 wrote:
[. . .]
Although Dallas is well served by the two large
chains, namely B&N and Borders, which each has its
30,000-50,000 titles, there is only one used bookstore
of importance. *That is Half Price which like Powell's
in Portland sells a combo of used and new. *It is a
chain in central and western states. *Its headquarters
store is in Dallas and is quite a draw. *


How is it such a draw, if Texans are non-readers? Does it have a
really big section of CDs and DVDs?

After that, there's nothing. *It could be Irkutsk.


Are you talking about Irkutsk, Siberia, or is there an Irkutsk in
Texas? If you are saying that the city of Irkutsk, in Siberia, has a
shortage of bookshops, is even a byword for booklessness, that is news
to me, and rather surprising. Are you from Irkutsk?

Texans are not readers.


Non sequitur. They are mostly connected to the internet, so their
ability to shop for new and used books is not limited by the number of
bookshops.
 




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