From the Content Director: Disappearing Acts
At the time, the independent bookselling community very much viewed Barnes & Noble as the evil corporate empire. This particular superstore was ten blocks or so down the main shopping street of Seventh Avenue from the long-time beloved local indie, Community Bookstore.
The neighborhood was awash in righteous indignation. Chain store opponents printed up tiny slips of paper on which was written a diatribe about how Barnes & Noble was out to destroy the community, and how no one should patronize the new store. Supporters of Community Bookstore would bring these slips of paper with them into our store and surreptitiously tuck them inside books when we weren’t looking. A customer would pull a book off the shelf and rifle through it and one these slips would fall out and flutter to ground. Soon the floor was littered with them.
- Companies:
- Amazon.com
- Barnes & Noble Inc.
- People:
- Eterna Cadencia
- Lynn Rosen