Re:The Man Who Took on Amazon and Saved a Bookstore
by cafard on Monday May 28, 2012 @09:13AM
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Washington has at least three independent bookstores that seem to be doing well: Kramerbooks (Dupont Circle), Bridge Street Books (Georgetown), and Politics and Prose (Chevy Chase). Politics and Prose in particular does the "staff picks" and "new fiction/nonfiction" well. I think that they have natural constituencies, though I don't get to Bridge Street often enough to say what its is.
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Re:The Man Who Took on Amazon and Saved a Bookstore
by kanamekun on Monday May 28, 2012 @11:34AM
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Kramerbooks has a cafe/restaurant attached to it that's responsible for much of its success!
http://www.yelp.com/biz/kramerbooks-and-afterwords-cafe-wash...
It's a great place to bring a date, b/c you can get there early and look through the books (which are wonderfully curated, I agree!). Plus, your date will think you are smart and sophisticated!
Re:The Man Who Took on Amazon and Saved a Bookstore
by cafard on Monday May 28, 2012 @07:42PM
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Agreed, though I've been married long enough for the smart & sophisticated thing to have been pretty well seen through.
P&P has a cafe. Yet with $5 in caffeine & sugar giving one 45 minutes table rent, I doubt that brings much in.