Comments on: The Second Renaissance – bigger, better, faster! http://bookshopblog.com/2009/02/15/the-second-renaissance-%e2%80%93-bigger-better-faster/ ...to help you be a better bookseller Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:02:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: eBooks, Kindle and the Sweet Smell of Electronic Ink | Bookshop Blog http://bookshopblog.com/2009/02/15/the-second-renaissance-%e2%80%93-bigger-better-faster/comment-page-1/#comment-4209 eBooks, Kindle and the Sweet Smell of Electronic Ink | Bookshop Blog Sat, 16 May 2009 22:31:35 +0000 http://bookshopblog.com/?p=501#comment-4209 [...] taking a myriad of choices and winnowing out the best. As Bob Lewis pointed out on this blog in “The Second Renaissance-bigger, better, faster!” these are exciting times, and one of the questions is how do booksellers add value and receive [...] [...] taking a myriad of choices and winnowing out the best. As Bob Lewis pointed out on this blog in “The Second Renaissance-bigger, better, faster!” these are exciting times, and one of the questions is how do booksellers add value and receive [...]

]]> By: prying1 http://bookshopblog.com/2009/02/15/the-second-renaissance-%e2%80%93-bigger-better-faster/comment-page-1/#comment-2987 prying1 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:59:19 +0000 http://bookshopblog.com/?p=501#comment-2987 Bob, Well done posting. The title is quite compelling. The content makes one think and certainly, as you said, "I doubt if I’m (you're) done with it." Certainly as each generation becomes fodder for their children's history books many, or even most, do not look at life as history they are writing. Oftentimes it is not until they look at their grandchildren's history books and see events they lived through in it that that the light goes on. Old fogeys can certainly grump and gripe over the 'destruction' of language through texting abbreviations but chances are that if they use the Internet one day they will type LOL in a chatroom. (Raises hand) How will this affect our business? Good question. Just yesterday I listed a book and through Wiki on the author I saw two poem titles in the book listed in the article. I threw the titles in the listing figuring that might add to the listing hits only to later find that both complete poems can be found for free on the Internet. This is both good and bad. Certainly some will find the poems online and just print them out but there are others that will want it between two covers with gold imprinting on the spine. Others too may want the various selections of overpriced (NEW!) PODs. That I cannot understand but to each his own... I've felt that endorphin rush you speak of a few times in the book selling business. More than once I've sold scarce vanity books to someone who said that a relative had written the book and they were so glad to get a copy. Gosh! I feel a sudden urge to sing Kumbaya. Will you join me? Bob, Well done posting.

The title is quite compelling. The content makes one think and certainly, as you said, “I doubt if I’m (you’re) done with it.”

Certainly as each generation becomes fodder for their children’s history books many, or even most, do not look at life as history they are writing. Oftentimes it is not until they look at their grandchildren’s history books and see events they lived through in it that that the light goes on.

Old fogeys can certainly grump and gripe over the ‘destruction’ of language through texting abbreviations but chances are that if they use the Internet one day they will type LOL in a chatroom. (Raises hand)

How will this affect our business? Good question. Just yesterday I listed a book and through Wiki on the author I saw two poem titles in the book listed in the article. I threw the titles in the listing figuring that might add to the listing hits only to later find that both complete poems can be found for free on the Internet. This is both good and bad.

Certainly some will find the poems online and just print them out but there are others that will want it between two covers with gold imprinting on the spine. Others too may want the various selections of overpriced (NEW!) PODs. That I cannot understand but to each his own…

I’ve felt that endorphin rush you speak of a few times in the book selling business. More than once I’ve sold scarce vanity books to someone who said that a relative had written the book and they were so glad to get a copy.

Gosh! I feel a sudden urge to sing Kumbaya. Will you join me?

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