Help Davis Get a Bookstore!

[elfword.livejournal.com]

Davis Square hasn't had a bookstore since McIntyre & Moore moved out almost a year ago. I and a group of others are sharing ideas, connections, and effort to try and bring a bookstore to Davis Square.

If you're a fellow book-lover that'd like to see an indie bookstore (with a sizable used books section) make its home in Davis, you should come to our first meetup, this upcoming Monday (3/22) at 7:00 PM, in Blue Shirt Cafe. We'll have a sign on a table or two announcing who we are.

For more info, or to show someone you think would be interested, please check out: http://bit.ly/davisbookstore

As the site says, two of our top priorities are:

1. Finding a bookstore starter (someone that can open a bookstore, a current bookstore owner that wants to expand or move, or a chain) and convincing them.
2. Helping a bookstore starter get the resources they need to open a bookstore (capital, location, inventory).

If you have any ideas about either of these, please comment!

Comments

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

+1.

I am all for letting a hundred flowers bloom, but I am also not eager to cut into Porter Square Books's or McIntyre & Moore's or The Book Rack's business--if another bookstore opens, I will most likely patronize it as well, but I don't see it as a pressing need given those three bookstores (and others).

[ron_newman]

A Hundred Flowers -- now that was a great bookstore (on Pearl Street in Central Square). Since I think you grew up in Cambridge you probably remember it.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Yes, I do! I remember going there before seeing movies at Off the Wall Cinema.

I didn't grow up here, though--I moved here when I was 17. I grew up elsewhere in Massachusetts.

More Bookstores

[silveraeroguy.livejournal.com]

Excepting the new bookstore model, used bookstores like big parties. The more the merrier! Back in the day Harvard Square was the proverbial Charring Cross Road of New England. The more bookstores the more book lovers make that area a destination and a point to search out and browse all of them.

PS- Everybody has so far forgotten to mention Three Geese In Flight, a bit further down Elm Street from Porter towards Somerville Ave and next to the pet shop.

Re: More Bookstores

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

PS- Everybody has so far forgotten to mention Three Geese In Flight

I thought they only sold books about Ireland or something? It's unlikely a general-interest bookstore in Davis Square would affect such a specialized business.

Re: More Bookstores

[silveraeroguy.livejournal.com]

Exactly my point. They're customer's might want to visit/be clued in to other area stores and vice versa. It's the draw of multiple shops that book addicts yearn for.

Please google them and you'll see they have a few other specialty areas not about Ireland or Arthurian legend. Just because they specialize does not mean they don't have any other interesting books.

Less to you and more to everyone, just go check them out, go browse, go talk to the owner, and learn. What you learn makes word of mouth such a powerful tool.