The pictures of The San Clu are really for decoration,
nuffin special you understand, I suppose the interesting bit was the fire and
here is the link to the article about that http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/orw/
I like a few local pictures before I post to get me in the
mood.
In the local social media front the most followed local Facebook
group Thanet Chat closed down a couple of days ago, same old – practically
impossible to moderate scenario that wiped out the local blogging scene. A
shame but what can you do? Possibly a special part of the internet for people
who, don’t want to:- sell you something you don’t want to buy, don’t use
obscenities as punctuation, don’t want to name and shame. Perhaps some sort of
test that would make using this part of the internet like visiting a bookshop.
I am pretty sure that the Waterstone’s in St Margaret’s
Street Canterbury is the biggest bookshop in East Kent and it’s closing for
good at the end of this week.
In my opinion as a buyer of new books, it had more chance of
having something in stock than most new bookshops in Kent.
This won’t leave Canterbury without a Waterstone’s as there
is still the one in Rose Lane, however this one is much more café focused
whereas the one that is closing was three floors of bookshop and one entirely
separate floor of café.
Now I know you are thinking that this is entirely down to
the internet where pretty much all of the books you could have bought in there
will be cheaper, but the problem – to me a huge problem for Readers, writers
and publishers, is that there will now be a huge amount of new books that readers
can’t look at before they buy them.
As a secondhand bookseller I don’t have the same fundamental
problem that new bookshops have, which is that it isn’t possible to compete
with internet prices. On that front I just look up books on Amazon when I price
the ones going on the shelves in my bookshop and obviously make mine cheaper.
What happens to the new bookshops I just don’t know – the
simple problem is that a shop has to have a profit margin to pay for it to be
there and if you can buy most new books online for the same amount that a new
bookshop would pay for them then soon there just won’t be any at all.
Here are the books that went out in our bookshop
today http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/cockney-bible-in-bookshop.html
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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.