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"Books, even obscure ones, are readily available online in the age of digital retail. As bookstores attempt to find their identity in a new era, some have survived by selling everything from toys to socks, coffee to stationery. In this short book, Jeff Deutsch, the director of the Seminary Co-op Bookstores in Chicago, aims to make the case for the value of spaces devoted to books and the value of the time spent browsing their stacks. It is a defense of serious bookstores, but more importantly it is a paean to the spaces that support them; the experience of readers as they engage with the books, the stacks, and each other; and the particular community created by the presence of such an institution. Drawing on his lifelong experience as a bookseller and his particular experience at Sem Co-op, Deutsch aims, in a series of brief essays, to consider how concepts like space, time, abundance, measure, community, and reverence find expression in a good bookstore, and to show some ways in which the importance of the bookstore is both urgent and enduring"--
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In Praise of Good Bookstores, Jeff Deutsch
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2022
- Reliure
- (rigide)
Modes de paiement
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Jeff Deutsch
- Éditeur
- Princeton University Press
- Publié
- 2022
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 216
- ISBN10
- 0691207763
- ISBN13
- 9780691207766
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Histoires vraies, Commerce, Affaires & Gestion, Biographies, Thématique philosophique, Littérature contemporaine, Autobiographies et mémoires, Presse d'opinion & Essais, Sur les livres
- Évaluation
- 3,45 sur 5
- Description
- "Books, even obscure ones, are readily available online in the age of digital retail. As bookstores attempt to find their identity in a new era, some have survived by selling everything from toys to socks, coffee to stationery. In this short book, Jeff Deutsch, the director of the Seminary Co-op Bookstores in Chicago, aims to make the case for the value of spaces devoted to books and the value of the time spent browsing their stacks. It is a defense of serious bookstores, but more importantly it is a paean to the spaces that support them; the experience of readers as they engage with the books, the stacks, and each other; and the particular community created by the presence of such an institution. Drawing on his lifelong experience as a bookseller and his particular experience at Sem Co-op, Deutsch aims, in a series of brief essays, to consider how concepts like space, time, abundance, measure, community, and reverence find expression in a good bookstore, and to show some ways in which the importance of the bookstore is both urgent and enduring"--