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I hate to see a small bookstore close. Very sad
Me too I visited it a few times. Always thought it was a cool place. Hope something nice moves in
It's a shame, that was such a nice place. But the economics of a used bookstore are precarious in the best of times.
Not a money maker job. More of a passion.
Sad. It's hard to imagine any bookstore doing well today, regardless of pandemic forced shutdown.
So bummed to hear about this. Love that book store!
What happens to all the books?
Article says the owner hasn't decided yet:
Belt is weighing whether or not to put the store’s inventory up for auction. He said he’d consider having someone take over the used book business, but he doesn’t see it as a likely outcome.
He should have a book sale.
I think we are going to see a lot of the small independent shops similarly closing when everything is done.
That's one of the many frustrating parts of all this. The big companies have the resources to whether the storm. So they'll get to hoover up the wreckage, and then more of the country will be in even fewer hands.
Basically chain restaurantsand retail will be all be what's left.
To bad we didn't have a leader who correctly managed the virus response 24/7.
A lot of good things will end because of that P.O.S.
*venting
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Crowded Hong Kong had FOUR Dead.
America has a 600x worse rate of dead per capita.
Why?
Hong Kong went all in on ordering masks be used.
New York City, with a population of about 8.4 million, has had over 28,000 coronavirus deaths as of May 18. Meanwhile, Hong Kong has officially recorded only four Covid-19 deaths, despite having 7.5 million residents.
One reason that could help explain the stark disparity: In Hong Kong, nearly everyone wears a face mask in public.
If any city in the world was likely to experience the worst effects of the coronavirus, Hong Kong would have been a top candidate. The urban area is densely populated and heavily reliant on packed public-transit systems, and it has very few open spaces. Moreover, a high-speed train connects Hong Kong to Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus originated.
Hong Kong, it seemed, was doomed.
But almost as soon as the outbreak first began in the city, millions of residents started wearing masks in public. One local told the Los Angeles Times that the government didn’t have to say anything before 99 percent of the population put them on.
Experts now say widespread mask usage appears to be a major reason, perhaps even the primary one, why the city hasn’t been devastated by the disease.
“If not for universal masking once we depart from our home every day, plus hand hygiene, Hong Kong would be like Italy long ago,” K.Y. Yuen, a Hong Kong microbiologist advising the government, told the Wall Street Journal last month.
The CDC has been gagged by Trump.
Our scientists and the intel community knew what Hong Cong scientist knew and were not listened to / acted on by Trump. Cant get president LIAR-CHEATEDON3WIVES-EGOMANIAC to even wear a mask in public.
We've lost more Americans now than we did fighting Germany from DDay to their surrender !
What's a bookstore? Is it like a in-person Amazon.com?
You joke, but even [Amazon]( https://amazon.com/b/?node=17750349011&ref=AMZBKS_GoogleListing_JDC1) has their own brick-and-mortar bookstores these days.