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First, Barnes and Noble is up for sale. Now nearby indie book store, Legacy Books closes. If any indie had hope, it was Legacy Books. The 24,000-square-foot store is a work of beautiful architecture, you feel right at home in the store and its amazing lineup of authors. (I took my son to see Doreen Cronin, author of Click, Clack, Moo).
All the articles say the move to ebooks is responsible. While, I have a Kindle, I’ve yet to read an entire book on it. I just find myself choosing real print over ebooks. I love what Plano Profile, a local magazine, editor Lisa Sams wrote in her editorial. She talked about an advertising campaign backed by the biggest players in consumer magazine publishing called “Magazines, The Power of Print.”
Sams describes an ad that features Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps (jokes aside) with the line, “The Internet is exhilarating. Magazines are enveloping. The Internet grabs you. Magazines embrace you. The Internet is fleeting. Magazines are immersive. And both media are growing.” Ending with… “…people aren’t giving up swimming because they also enjoy surfing.” Amen!
Why can’t we have both? Why can’t print and ebooks survive equally? Like Sams, I love magazines. I rip out pages to follow up on while recycling the rest. I actually follow through on those ripped pages most of the time, unlike bookmarks.
Read a letter to the editor about the Legacy business. The writer drove over 30 minutes away to check out the book store when it first opened and expressed disappointment. The store, to him, didn’t carry anything you don’t see at other book stores like indie publishers and university press books. Good point.
It’s a beautiful building and I thought it had something going for it with the fabulous events. But when you put it the way writer did in his letter, other book stores have author visits. They may not have the incredible architecture, but the content remains the same. The store lives less than a mile from my home, so maybe I’m biased because of its location.
The bookstore’s owner already has plans for the next phase. The book store will move to another location further away near a lot of shopping and receive a new name, “A Real Book Store.” (Site not up yet as of this posting.) One of the problems with the Legacy location is that you couldn’t see it from the road. In fact, the first time I went there, I had to look hard for it and drive around a bit. I hope the new location will work better even though I’ve yet to get over that area (near an outlet shopping center).
What do you think of the local bookstore’s future?
Internet leads to bookstores’ demise isn’t a surprise, but bookstores are still valuable. Most likely, the mom and pop stores are the biggest hit. A popular children’s book store in Plano closed recently after many years of service and entertaining kids. Tis a shame.
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