Sydney's MISSING Book Quarter
June 22nd 2011 05:44
Link: www.bookswellread.net
Whatever Happened to
Sydney's
"BOOK QUARTER"?
It seems to have gone missing or be evaporated or something?
In the last six months Napoleon's moved off York Street.
Last month Ashwood's disappeared and has apparently become an e-bay store instead.
Now what's left of Galaxy has moved upstairs to Abbey's top floor.
This means we know have EXACTLY one bookshop surviving on the part of York Street that was supposed to be the centre of Sydney's Book Quarter!
Clover Moore and other Sydenysiders want Sydney to have sidewalk and alleyways cafes and bars like Paris or New York but what we seem to be heading for instead is a Sydney of gloomy net and coffee addicts sitting outside staring at tablets mobiles and ipads with the occassional odd individual like me ACTUALLY reading a hardcopy newspaper or book or magazine!?
Who misses the promise of a book quarter and the joy of scraping up enuff change or credit on your cards to be able to walk into a bookshop pick something at random and then without having to wait for it to arrive by courier or post cross over to QVB and fork out for that once a month treat of cake and tea or one of Yama's fabulous green tea seafood pancakes ?
I fear the only hope for bookshops is that some one gets the bright idea of having a store where you can walk in and see a sample hard copy or browse on a computer with a VERY HIGH resolution and then order a print on demand copy to your spefications and sit back and read the paper and drink tea or coffee while waiting for your print out to be bound?
Sydney needs more bookshops of varying sizes!
Sydney's
"BOOK QUARTER"?
It seems to have gone missing or be evaporated or something?
In the last six months Napoleon's moved off York Street.
Last month Ashwood's disappeared and has apparently become an e-bay store instead.
Now what's left of Galaxy has moved upstairs to Abbey's top floor.
This means we know have EXACTLY one bookshop surviving on the part of York Street that was supposed to be the centre of Sydney's Book Quarter!
Clover Moore and other Sydenysiders want Sydney to have sidewalk and alleyways cafes and bars like Paris or New York but what we seem to be heading for instead is a Sydney of gloomy net and coffee addicts sitting outside staring at tablets mobiles and ipads with the occassional odd individual like me ACTUALLY reading a hardcopy newspaper or book or magazine!?
Who misses the promise of a book quarter and the joy of scraping up enuff change or credit on your cards to be able to walk into a bookshop pick something at random and then without having to wait for it to arrive by courier or post cross over to QVB and fork out for that once a month treat of cake and tea or one of Yama's fabulous green tea seafood pancakes ?
I fear the only hope for bookshops is that some one gets the bright idea of having a store where you can walk in and see a sample hard copy or browse on a computer with a VERY HIGH resolution and then order a print on demand copy to your spefications and sit back and read the paper and drink tea or coffee while waiting for your print out to be bound?
Sydney needs more bookshops of varying sizes!
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