Is this why indie bookstores are dying out?

[John Bailey]

His running memoir is kinda disposable, but so are most of his books,
and that's their appeal! I say that as someone who has read every one.
Nobel material... not so much.

Better than being yelled at, anyway, unless you need/like to be yelled
at. Which is also fine.

On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm on yr side. I'd also add, there are an awful lotta people who simply
> don't read anymore. I'm sadly becoming one of them. I brought a short stack
> of short, onehanded books for surgery/rehab, and have only read several
> chapters of a (Murakami!) book a friend brought me (presented after my
> annual well, thank God theNobel didn't go to Murakami, at least, rant). His
> "running" memoir. I think it was intended to be inspiration, but it's a
> pretty straightforward read, @ least, and it's making me more sympathetic to
> him, @ least, so ... otherwise, TCM, MeTV (see my Facbook page), attempting
> to sleep, and regular bloodlettings, so ...
>
> Me " case mgr," who  i think was played by Jane Lynch, was actully yelling
> at me yesterday, but I think it was her last day, so ...
>
>
> On Saturday, October 18, 2014, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Interesting argument I would have had more faith in had I not read a
>> counter-argument yesterday:
>>
>>
>> http://www.salon.com/2014/10/14/amazons_selfish_defender_hugh_howeys_short_sighted_ayn_rand_ian_argument_harms_book_culture/
>>
>> I really enjoyed the first installment in Howey's Wool trilogy. But
>> I'm increasingly distrustful of the whole social media/sharing
>> economy, since its basically Amazon/Uber/AirBnB marketing unregulated
>> business models as if they're grass-roots community farmers markets.
>> It's the libertarian meritocracy argument - if you work hard you'll
>> get great reviews from your peers on Urbanspoon and Tripadvisor and
>> Goodreads and the cream will rise blah blah blah. We'll charge you a
>> tiny fraction along the way (that adds up to a whole lot), you'll have
>> no legal protection and in some cases ownership of your own work,
>> won't be able to refute criticism, and sometimes we'll allow people to
>> buy their way above you without letting anyone know. We also sell your
>> data to advertisers, which is where the real money is.
>>
>> Feel free to share.
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel-thompson/is-this-why-indie-booksto_b_5991982.html?utm_hp_ref=books&ir=Books
>>
-
Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l