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Neil Gaiman Celebrates Independent Bookstore Day (indiebookstoreday.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Today is "Independent Bookstore Day," a national event promoting local bookstores which will feature exclusive bookstore-only offerings, including a Neil Gaiman coloring book with 20 black-and-white illustrations by Gaiman illustrator Chris Riddell and quotes from Coraline, The Graveyard Book, and Fortunately, the Milk. "Independent bookstores are not just stores, they're community centers and local anchors run by passionate readers," reads the event's web site, saying independent bookstores "are not just stores, they are solutions. They hold the key to your love life, your career, and your passions."
There's actually more independent bookstores this year than there were last year, according to the site, which argues that "In a world of tweets and algorithms and pageless digital downloads, bookstores are not a dying anachronism. They are living, breathing organisms that continue to grow and expand."
There's actually more independent bookstores this year than there were last year, according to the site, which argues that "In a world of tweets and algorithms and pageless digital downloads, bookstores are not a dying anachronism. They are living, breathing organisms that continue to grow and expand."
You forgot to mention the free wi-fi where anonymous script kiddies launch ddos attacks.
Not like two men fucking together in a bed!
That was "The Man Who Folded Himself" by David Gerrold. The real title was Man Who Fucked Himself, but censors didn't want you to see the real title on a bookshelf, you see.
If they are really growing and expanding, you wouldn't really need to tell people about it.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
killed the local shops. well, small shops. then amazon killed bookstop. ancient history now. what kills amazon?
Author of niche-interest fiction hypes small providers of a formerly popular type of entertainment media. It's ironic that science fiction fans are so attached to the past.
So, 2?
The problem with independent bookstores is they never have a large enough spot for my horse.
In your ass?
Don't forget national cottage cheese appreciation week
There's actually more independent bookstores this year than there were last year
Shouldn't that read there're ?
Nullius in verba
After B Dalton left, there were only 3 used book stores here. Now we are down to one, and it is struggling to keep the doors open.
My Kindle stores my collection of over 700 books nicely. I don't have room for 700 or even 70 dead tree editions here. And all of my ebooks are made from recycled electrons...how green is that!
Neil Gayman is not only gay, he is in fact white. This is the most horrible evil thing you can be in today's politically correct diverse atmosphere. The fact that he happens to be English does not absolve him from being white. Gayman writes from the standpoint of a white european male. He is incapable of understanding the plight of the poor disadvantaged latino african americans struggling to find a place in the united states amongst the inherent American white privilege that exists in America. Gayman can not walk in to shoes of the african american male. The fact your tiny white penis becomes engorged with blood every time you here his name, just points out your inherant racial biase. I for one will not rest untill all white people are dead. Only then can we fulfill Martin Luther's dream of equality.
This is the dream of all the liberal white elites who are always looking out for the poor disadvantaged trans-gendered african american latinos, and doing everything they can to help them, because they are incapable of helping themselves.
...if you pay the right company.
> Today is "Independent Bookstore Day,
No, it's not.
Just like those airline magazine ads that tell you "top ten steakhouses" that are paid for by... the ten steakhouses listed,
this "day" is nothing other than sheer marketing.
Big clue: It was formed in 2014 by a group wanting money to advertise for... independent booksellers.
Read all about it here: http://www.indiebookstoreday.c...
I'm surprised Scott "I hate Amazon and the Internet" Turow hasn't come out and supported it too.
Still not a holiday.
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Let's see. The stock market has been soaring under President Obama, unlike the Bush administration where it collapsed over 50%.
The job market is growing, unlike the Bush administration where over 14 million people lost their jobs.
Housing is picking up, unlike the Bush administration where millions lost their homes.
While interest rates have been kept artificially low to help Wall Street, at least $700 billion of taxpayer money hasn't been used so they could pay out their bonuses.
Last I looked, planes aren't slamming into buildings, unlike the Bush administration which ignored 8 months of daily warnings of an impending attack resulting in the deaths of 3,000 people in a few hours.
The guy who planned the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history is dead, unlike the Bush administration which let him escape when they refused every request from troops on the ground for more troops to block his escape from Tora Bora.
We haven't invaded and occupied a single country, unlike in the Bush administration which lied about needing to attack Iraq which cost us over $2 trillion and the lives of thousands of U.S. soldiers.
All in all, not bad considering how bad a shape the country was in when Bush was in office.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Today is May Day, the day we should celebrate working people around the world, and in history who sacrificed their time, their blood, sweat, and tears, and so many their lives, to bring us many things we today take for granted, such as the rights to unionize, collective bargaining, an 8 hour workday, a five-day work week, and protection from unsafe working conditions.
We should absolutely NOT water that down by celebrating the pigs who own jack shit, even small bookstores. Fuck that ignorant twat for suggesting otherwise.
There are 364 (or occasionally 365) other days of the year they could celebrate this. May first is for LABOR.
If you don't appreciate what those heroes sacrificed so you can have, then get back to fucking work, dog. Work 6 or 6 1/2 days a week, for better than 10 hours a day, and when you get fired the first time you get sick, and replaced by someone who will do your job for less, and in turn be treated like shit, just the way you were, accept that as just part of life, that you don't deserve better than.
HEY! Why not go to an independent bookstore while you're unemployed, and celebrate all the books they have there that you can't afford?
Maybe go to Half-Rip-Off Books, where you can buy books for somewhat less than they'd cost new, and sell them back to them for basically fucking nothing?
Kneel, gay man.