SC - Re: Amazon.com - ot

[Bonne of Traquair]

>I hope that I don't sound like a whiner, and certainly getting a 
discount is
>important--so many books, so little money-- but just as we buy our 
cloth and
>pouches from SCA merchants, don't you think that supporting local 
booksellers
>is a good idea?  

Here, here!  

>
>Please excuse me if I seem heated about this; every week the 
booksellers'
>newsletter lists bookstores that are closing: old, established, beloved 
ones

The Intimate Bookshop first shrank from a statewide chaing, down to only 
the original store and one at the former edge of town (now in town).  
Then only that second store.  Now it's gone altogether.  A great loss.  
Hastened by a case of arson at the original store. The influx of Big & 
Name chain bookstore (2 of them in the Triangle) about the same time 
meant that instead of arising from the ashes The Intimate just smoked 
and sputtered and finally died.  A great loss to the town and to the 
Kuralt family, of course. 



>Devra the Baker  
>Poison Pen Press -- the finest historical cookbooks (in print) in the 
Known World

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