tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post5823019326425390413..comments2024-03-19T10:12:43.882+00:00Comments on Bookride: French Bibliomaniacs (CBS Sunday Morning)Bookridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05881971821359627382noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-32862591837879012242009-02-21T19:15:00.000+00:002009-02-21T19:15:00.000+00:00Thank you for this. I wish, however, that CBS had...Thank you for this. I wish, however, that CBS had provided captions for Martin Stone's comments.<BR/>The disparity between the number of bookstores in Paris and New York City was shocking. I was reminded of a comment by Don DeLilo: I think of Europe as the hard cover edition; America is the paperback version. (Hope I got that quote right!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-79019596388959247902009-02-21T08:42:00.000+00:002009-02-21T08:42:00.000+00:00For those who haven't seen it, here's the link to ...For those who haven't seen it, here's the link to the excellent Guardian piece Gareth mentions -<BR/><BR/>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/interactive/2009/jan/31/charing-cross-bookshops<BR/><BR/>I thought it was mentioned earlier, i suppose I've just imagined that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-7151914449514767542009-02-20T16:37:00.000+00:002009-02-20T16:37:00.000+00:00A friend who runs the library bookshop here in Blo...A friend who runs the library bookshop here in Bloomington, Indiana told me about this piece a week or so ago. I worked at Pordes a little more than twenty years ago and I knew Martin Stone, though not as well as you did and do. I also sent a link to the video to two Stoneaphiles and former Any Amount employees, Adrian Curry and Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly. <BR/><BR/>I'm slightly surprised you haven't posted a link to the Guardian piece about the decline of the Charing Cross Road, particularly as it's chock full of pictures and a video of Any Amount. Perhaps its news, if that's what it is, is too depressing. I hope you, Pordes, and even Quinto, where I worked when it was called Read's, manage to survive the combined onslaught of the internet and the Soho Housing Association.<BR/><BR/>Gareth EvansAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com