On 12/23/09 1:09 PM, jps wrote:
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:56:10 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:13:31 -0800, wrote:



You mean a place to hang out? That's not an unfair representation
but, if you're into reading, it does require browsing unless you're
just there to pick up something specific. I find a lot of folks go
there to see what's there. Usually know what you want in a coffee
shop.

Whenever I'd visit a book store that served coffee, my impression of
the people sitting around there reading books for free was - bums.
Figured they weren't worth the overhead of the coffee operation, and
the business model was flawed.
Don't know if that's right, or not.
Maybe I'm just a prick and a bad businessman.

--Vic

We have a B&N 3 miles from the house in an upscale shopping center.
It's always teeming with people, sitting, standing browsing. They do
good business.

We're not as lucky. We have to drive about 25 miles to Annapolis for a
pretty nice, two level Borders book store. The store like yours does a
lot of biz...and has a nice coffee shoppe and wi-fi. It's a good place
to hang out while my wife shops. I hate shopping. If you are on the
store's mailing list, you get coupons that make the prices the same as
amazon's. Our local grocery store strip mall has a "christian" book
store, a strange operation if you go by what it puts in its display
windows...a compendium of christ for the non-thinker.