brief prognosis on the libraries in our country ... [My apologies input by the length of this post, but I have no time to summarize ...
And by the way, if you want to read about Egypt, do not do much if the mass media and read a really well-informed people like those I have linked to the right on my blog: The War Nerd
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Juan Cole , Global Guerrillas
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few years ago a lot, in fact, "I used to go regularly to bookstores-well, really large stores that sold books, such as FNAC, crucible, or Casa del Libro-, to browse around, and ultimately buy after a couple of hours, some books.
course could not afford to buy as many as now, but then it fit at home reasonably at least, not like now, making the houses so you can not build up or clothes or books, which is not bad per se, but to me it is doing rethink things, "but that was more intense the experience .. . "What two or three lame end of these six or seven" ...
then I started to not be so long, Madrid traffic increased exponentially, with sales of cars and motorcycles, to have a clown we have a mayor with pharaonic megalomania, and the increase in traffic joined militarized parking area, I say secure, and central areas of the city where they fine you or yes, and then go to prove you're a resident or you were going to a parking area, and you better have kept that ticket four months earlier ... Total
I stopped going to flip through books so often ...
But the fundamental cause was Amazon. That you could read thousands of comments on a novel you were planteándote buy-and that which at first could not discuss with other readers, and now ... "Brian Herbert is a stingy jerk with no talent, man, your father is very overrated, but you say ..."-, man that you could read the first pages, and you take her home ... that was fantastic. And that despite the outrageous taxes when crossing the border English-not yet Schengen existed ...
So I moved into a new habit, which basically was that I bought almost every book on the network, and once a year in late November, to go to several malls to buy gifts for Christmas, stop in turn large library of books, browse and buy some, but less and less often for me ... and over time I've been noticing that these large stores of books are emasculated: They are becoming the abominable bookshops versions Blockbuster Video in the late 90's.
me explain.
about fifteen years ago, I could spend a couple of hours examining books in the FNAC or-less Book House in Crucible, which was the first to be "blockbusterizó" - because, with the most recently had not yet been institutionalized so you buy only what was supposed to read most the vulgar-bit ojeados find books, some sold, short-run ...
And subtly, slowly, began to have no more than dozens of copies of the bestseller that everyone should read.
I remember that day in which hundreds of bricks exposed the infamous Da Vinci Code in FNAC Callao. That moment had some spatial node, noospheric crossroads ... there would be no turning back. Immediately dwindled to half the section of Fantasy and Science Fiction, cannibalized their space by the first generation of clunkers birthed by "journalists."
And what is even worse: employees of the FNAC, which at the very beginning were very competent people then you find what you asked them, they knew what they were asking almost always, or you do it for you and traértelo proposed were replaced Appreciation for illiterate and less enthusiastic about their work that the first recruits who went to Vietnam ...
Today, in early 2011, Crisol and no-less-evil, FNAC is standing a mere display of bestsellers and the most purchased billboard-no most read "by the mob, and La Casa del Libro, although I have not gone so often, I get the impression that it falls to the same thing the last few times I've been looking for books in English to give, I had to seller tell me where I was what I was asking because he was unable to see, and that he was under their noses ... and in any case, with that shitty website that is La Casa del Libro, just want to go no input.
What could happen to close Crucible, FNAC has become a blockbuster, etc?
is tempting to say that the fault lies with the online purchase, from Amazon and its imitators ...
Not really. In
recent years I have gone to great bookstores in UK, France, USA ... and do not exhibit this phenomenon at all ... No samples have become bestsellers trade fair. There are rare books, not only are people stereotyped looking bestseller you have been told to give to this family is so asshole who claims to read, the employees are older, educated, and efficient: not Appreciation looking to work in Friday's bringing thousands of badges and the foolishness of singing birthday song. In none of them. I've been in Gibert Joseph, in Gibert Jeune in several Paris and Brussels FNAC in many Borders, Barnes & Noble several in Strand, etc.
have not been popularized or idiotic as the ones here.
That there internet connection really works, and also is much cheaper than in Spain ...
So I am forced to conclude that the combination of several factors: first, the lack of entrepreneurial spirit of our country epizootic officials, two: the cultural level of our people is plummeting, and three, the competition virtual stores.
One: They have done nothing to change. If anything have gotten worse, hiring Appreciation should be serving burgers, fast food, those who devour the anti-Catalan rather than selling books ... It is not easy to find where to sit, nowhere to take coffee. If such things exist, I do not remember, "of course not as well placed as in Borders ... No reward you for being there, here is the fault of Mayor Fallardón, which has been proposed traffic-stop ...
Two: English not only read, but if he dares to mention that reads something other than bestsellers of conspiracies involving the Vatican, is a bluestocking and believed, it is not a pathological liar or antisocial aciguato matches cool and is not even half chachi-word that I heard personally-...
And three: As I have said many times, there is no comparison between a car (petrol, parking, traffic jam) or take the subway (TIME, risk of being hit or dock, heat, etc.), to buy a book for 22-28 Euros which almost certainly will not know, or will have, and will wield over an unfortunate translation in many cases that you get an email warning you about one of your favorite authors has published another book, which will take you home with no shipping costs, an issue much more physical care, and over the original version, or a French or English translation infinitely better that future English translation or rather American, and all that for 6-10 Euros ...
By now the reader will be thinking of the tiny neighborhood library. Sure, except that in my suburban neighborhood there, and to ask me or look as I do in the network, saving me the way and pass the time ...
So, what I think will happen? FNAC
That will become a kind of MediaMarkt with airs of pijerío, selling technology and maintaining a small section of bestsellers, as do the MediaMarkt or Saturn.
That the House of Books will stay the same, selling an illusory image-campus bookstore is not sophisticated at all, has little of everything, "and capitalizing on their vast areas in a privileged area to attract bohemians and guiris speaking center. That
small neighborhood bookstores should lower their costs to the utmost, perhaps specializing in specific genres, but losing market share so-and-shrinking markets depending on older people outside the Internet, or young people paranoid, or romantic bohemian and neohippies schizophrenic, "and probably will sell more than books, such as" libraries "of Cadiz and Malaga, which are stationary and kiosks with a book ...
And we like to read the truth, we will be Amazon, The Book Depository, Play.com ... or visit the great libraries of neighboring countries.
suspect that it's not just with the libraries in our country ... enough to see the status of research on the verge of extinction, and much faster than the bluefin tuna, or no jobs for highly qualified ... as predicted in other posts, in a few decades, when Latino immigration is just as young and well educated everyone has applied for asylum in developed countries really, Morocco will start a new green and Spain will be an Islamic republic, but not at the head of civilization as eleven centuries ago, rather in the ass ...
