It’s always the end of the world,” said Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazon’s top executives. “You could set your watch on it arriving.” He pointed out, though, that the landscape was in some ways changing for the first time since Gutenberg invented the modern book nearly 600 years ago. “The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and reader,” he said. “Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity.” Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal. New York Times, 10/16/2011
Russell GrandinettiTags: libraries bookstore publishing e-books
We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?
Rachel CohnTags: bookstore
To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame.
Nicole KraussTags: bookstore the-new-republic
I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.
Tahereh MafiTags: friend books bookstore bookshelves
Don't die a pauper, don't die a commoner and a weakling.
Jaachynma N.E. AguTags: greatness planning books-reading book bookstore faith-strength success-self-improvement books-reading-bibliophily greater-glory higher-living the-best-option be-different agu jaachynma chiyson strategy-class
I just love the smell of an old book store and the feel of the crisp pages along my fingertips.
Leah SpiegelJake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home.
Stephen KingTags: books bookstores bookstore
My favourite place in the whole city was the Sempere
Carlos Ruiz ZafónI had to leave my debit card at home when I went into a bookstore or else I would drain my account.
Chelsea M. CameronTags: bookstore true-story
There is nothing like the smell of a bookstore. If you ask me, it's actually a combination of smells: part library, part new book, and part expectation for what you might find.
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