re: #182 Alouette

And now Amazon is putting all these out of business.

Not Powells :)

Indie bookstores need to do more than sell books to stay in business. they need to offer experiences impossible on a kindle. Powells is that experience times a thousand. Bookstores aren’t just business, they need to be community and culture. They need to get further into the art and into their communities than just hosting readings.

I can walk into Powells tomorrow and leave with a big binder techincal manual of CAD-3D, the original 3d modelling program for the ancient and mostly unknown Atari ST personal computer, I believe, created in the mid 80’s. They have one! Within their satellite technical book store, which is as large as a Barnes and Noble. And that’s just the tech manuals!