This from the AP:
Powell’s Books is asking employees to scale back their hours or take sabbaticals to cope with disappointing sales.
Powell’s is one of the nation’s largest independent booksellers. But like many other retailers, it is seeing the impact of the recession on sales.
Paul Constant of The Stranger rightly reminds you to shop at local, independent bookstore.
The money you put into local bookstores stays local, and it keeps us all from sitting, pasty-faced, in our apartments and waiting for another drab cardboard box full of books to be dropped at our doorstep. I cannot emphasize this enough: This is important.
That said, I finally found a good used bookstore in downtown Boise. Trip Taylor Bookseller is on 10th Street and completely worth hitting up. It has that air of organized disorder that all good used bookstores have, one that I cannot capture with my own books. Plus, I got out of there with a paperback Joan Didion joint and a hardback Calvin Trillin for less than $17.
Oh, and within their photograph section, they helpfully break out all the naked pictures into the “Nude Photography” subsection, which I thought was a nice touch.
