Donna Apperson
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Amy Stewart:
Just finished Last Bookstore in America. Not sure if you meant to, but you sure gave an eye-opening view into our potential future in the electronic age. How intentional was this? Makes me want to buy a book! I do have a small shelf of books I could never part with, a few of which have my name in them as a consultant or whatever. Thanks for making me think all the while enjoying the gardening aspect of the book :)
Amy Stewart
Hi Donna--
Oh, that is entirely what that book was about. I wrote it as a lark, really: We had just bought our bookstore (Eureka Books in Eureka, CA) and it was a stormy day in January, raining so hard that you literally couldn't see anything outside our windows. It felt like we were a ship lost at sea. We hadn't had a single customer all day--not a promising start to owning a bookstore! I said something like, "It feels like we're the last bookstore in America right now." Then we got to talking about WHY a bookstore would be the last bookstore in America--like, what had happened to all the others--and why a bookstore in a little town like Eureka would be the last to survive. Ebooks had just come on the scene, and I have to say that I predicted many things that came later, including, most recently, Amazon opening brick and mortar stores! So yes, that's what it was all about--plus the gardening!
Oh, that is entirely what that book was about. I wrote it as a lark, really: We had just bought our bookstore (Eureka Books in Eureka, CA) and it was a stormy day in January, raining so hard that you literally couldn't see anything outside our windows. It felt like we were a ship lost at sea. We hadn't had a single customer all day--not a promising start to owning a bookstore! I said something like, "It feels like we're the last bookstore in America right now." Then we got to talking about WHY a bookstore would be the last bookstore in America--like, what had happened to all the others--and why a bookstore in a little town like Eureka would be the last to survive. Ebooks had just come on the scene, and I have to say that I predicted many things that came later, including, most recently, Amazon opening brick and mortar stores! So yes, that's what it was all about--plus the gardening!
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