Bookstores vs. Amazon Blog War
There’s a blog war going on about the future of the independent bookstore, and it touches issues very important to me, so I’ll weigh in.
In a Slate blog I felt seemed inadequately researched, Farhad Manjoo raged against the “high prices” of books in bookstores, termed the marvelous essay by Richard Russo in the New York Times “hectoring,” and called books published by major houses all “mass-manufactured.” Mr. Manjoo displayed [Read more…]