Best example is my recent trip to the bookshop adjacent the movie theatre showing The Hobbit.
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Similarly, the bookshop is a means of providing the physical book in the same space and city that we ourselves occupy.
With others copying the Waterstone's formula, there is also a lot of overcapacity in the bookshop market, which has squeezed profits.
Imagine we wanted to continue with this glorious new e-book technology but at the same time wanted to preserve the library and the bookshop?
And with digital content that hardware is akin to the bookshop.
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Quite: my own opinion is that, probably around the time of the death of my own generation which grew up only with physical books, the library and the bookshop will be as dead as those physical books.
Maybe South Africa (where I live) is still clinging to a traditional reading culture, but the bookshop was bright, colourful, filled with the latest releases and had a huge display of all kinds of books devoted to The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, both movie and book guides.
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Down the old, cold grey stone steps to the antiquated bookshop that lends the establishment its name, I found clues to the area's most charismatic corners.
Bookish tourists should stop in Santa Cruz, CA and visit the marvelous Bookshop Santa Cruz and the great used bookstore, Logos Books.
For a window on up-to-the-minute art news, stop at the gallery bookshop for independent, edgy magazines and lush tomes in both French and English.
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To top it off, the shrinking bookshop landscape made it more difficult to browse and buy guidebooks, driving more travellers online.
While the Westminster bookshop Politico's has sold 4, 000 Liberal Democrat and Tory manifestos, its geography and client list point to these buyers being political junkies.
The idea that this is going to result in the death of the indie bookshop seems like a nice slippery slope fallacy which reads well but makes no real sense.
The scheme was launched at a London bookshop by the School Standards Minister Estelle Morris, in the company of Hollyoaks' stars Terry Dwyer, who plays Ruth Osborne, Danielle Brent (Gina Patrick) and David Brown (Adam Morgan).
Even these fine volumes, though, are overshadowed by the collection's 20th-century material, in particular the art books that grew out of Mr Gillet's friendship with Jean Hugues, a bookseller and gallery owner from Provence who knew many of the Surrealist poets and painters, and who opened a bookshop in the rue Jacob in Paris in 1952.
The romantic comedy takes on the familiar facile arguments of modern life the pros and cons of e-mail relationships, the chain store behemoth v mom-and-pop shop, the heartless capitalist v the caring children's bookshop owner against the backdrop of an idealised Manhattan, graced by copious helpings of caffelatte, literary parties, and the perkiness of Ms Ryan accompanied by an assortment of children and dogs.
At Review, an excellent bookshop on the corner of Bellenden and Choumert Roads, a sentimental whippet holds court.
Barry Young, who runs a bookshop in the area, is also chair of the Sherlock Holmes Society of Scotland.
"I'll never forget going into a bookshop on the first day and seeing it on the shelves, " says Mr Jackson.
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Pass any newsstand or bookshop in the country and you will spot heaving shelves packed with hundreds of colourful local and international publications, sitting amid Manga comic books, novels and reference titles.
Word on the Water is a floating second-hand bookshop owned by three men who call themselves "The Doctor", "The Professor" and "The Captain".
For more evidence, wander into your local bookshop and find the Mind, Body, Spirit section.
Officially overall employment in the travel-agency and bookshop industries fell as a result of e-commerce.
Could you send me the name and address of a bookshop in London?
John Rowe of Notting Hill Books, a local bookshop, scoffs at the notion that a real-life bookseller could afford it.
Two decades ago, this columnist, browsing in a Washington bookshop, happened upon the greatest supply side columnist who ever lived, Warren Brookes.
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The second is an attempt to respond to the convenience of the Internet by turning visiting a bookshop into a leisure activity.
Keith Jones Christian Bookshop is one of the Bournemouth's largest bookstores.
Behind the till in the basement of Hatchards, a bookshop in London's Piccadilly, is a high shelf, well out of customers' reach, with a row of paperbacks.
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