{"id":1650,"date":"2012-05-29T18:08:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T22:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2023-04-04T23:06:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T03:06:19","slug":"bookstores-in-the-age-of-ebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2012\/05\/bookstores-in-the-age-of-ebooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookstores in the age of ebooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-18256087\">this BBC feature article<\/a>, best-selling author Ann Patchett believes it is still possible to have a successful bookstore. Six months ago she opened a bookstore in Nashville, Tennessee, and although she didn&#8217;t need to make a profit, in the interview she says &#8220;we&#8217;re doing really well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Patchett addresses the rise of ebooks. She does not denigrate ebooks, but points out that that many readers still appreciate a physical book. &#8220;Just because ebooks are becoming popular doesn&#8217;t mean that we should scoop all the other books into a pile and burn them,&#8221; she says. &#8220;And there is a spirit or attitude of, &#8216;Well, books are dead, it&#8217;s over, forget it.&#8217; And it&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> over.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this BBC feature article, best-selling author Ann Patchett believes it is still possible to have a successful bookstore. Six months ago she opened a bookstore in Nashville, Tennessee, and although she didn&#8217;t need to make a profit, in the interview she says &#8220;we&#8217;re doing really well.&#8221; Patchett addresses the rise of ebooks. She &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2012\/05\/bookstores-in-the-age-of-ebooks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bookstores in the age of ebooks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[925,556],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-culture","tag-bookstores","tag-ebooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5209,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/5209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}