The Worst News Day Ever

[magpie-leah.livejournal.com]

I was so sad to read the earlier post about La Contessa's closing and I was writing a friend about it and she pointed out this recent story about McIntyre & Moore:
http://somervillenews.typepad.com/the_somerville_news/2007/03/is_the_writing_.html

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[flexagon]

Seriously. But I gave them this suggestion once (about beefing up their fiction section) and got the reply that there's far too much fiction in the world already. Oh-kayyyyy then!

I am on the side of those who hate the snobbery. I've been in a few times over the years, but they actually make a used bookstore unfriendly and unappealing. I have no idea how they do it -- I've never disliked ANY other used bookstore that I can think of.

That said, my mother once found a very rare book on Hungarian folk-dancing there, and she was quite overjoyed.