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1101 East Pike St. Suite 300, Seattle, WA 98122
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Let’s all resolve to give books this year, and get them at Elliott Bay, University Bookstore, Mystery Bookstore, the Columbia City Book Exchange, Left Bank, and any other indie you can find.
You all should have done the same.
Too bad. Very too bad.
I lived on Capitol Hill in the early 90s. Every time I visit now, I am newly shocked at how much shabbier it is, despite how much more money is there now.
What the fuck is left on Broadway at this point? Holy Fuck.
Oh, thanks a lot to the rich breeder yuppies who moved in and chose not to support your local businesses. Real real classy!!
The problem isn't just books or bookstores. If retail dies, the things that make our cities livable die. We're becoming a nation of nail shops and teriyaki joints.
OMG, I love that place so much. It's the only bookstore I really care about. I'm SO bummed out.
Now that it's too late, I take it all back. Don't know what you've got til it's gone.
@22, Nobody buys magazines anymore, and people buy greeting cards. I don't see how either of those are bad decisions.
what am i gonna do with my stamp card? i only had 4 books to go on this one and im broke.
it was a great run guys, you will be missed. thanks for hanging in there, for as long as you did it could not have been easy.
all is lost, for in case you have not noticed, this is not even capitalism any more, its corporatism.
I'll miss their staff recommendations, their great window displays, friendly staff and even their awesome Harry Potter opening night parties. le sigh.
i hosted the first reading i ever did there ( along with laurie conner and jourdan keith ..now that i remember it it was a rare independent bookstore that didn't curate and host readings ) and bless michael who said to me ;'i can't wait for you to finish your book . i would be proud to see and sell a book of yours on our shelves instead of that e lynn harris'. it remains as one of the best encouragements and lovelier things anyone ever said to me.
.. even when times weren't hard i never bought a book from amazon or any other online store and i don't like to imagine that i ever will...but i had to curtail new book purchases because of a shrinking wallet . i hate not having money. being broke fucking sucks rat's ass..
Best wishes to all the employees at Bailey/Coy and to the owner.
craptity, crap, crap.
but, at least we can look forward to the inevitable $10 a drink martini bar that will probably take over that spot..
and, yes, Amazon DOES charge its Washington State customers sales tax.
I have a lot of memories of the place. Saw Samuel Delaney read there, and got a signed copy of NOVA. Saw Seth and Julie Doucet sign there, and talked to Seth at length (everybody was lining up to talk to Julie) about cartooning, and he cheered me up. I missed when they had Alison Bechdel signing there though.
I always used to steer K. there near my birthday or Christmas and point her toward books I liked, then discreetly leave the store for a few minutes while she bought them ..
If the place closes and then the space sits empty for the next five years, there will be sorrow.
Best wishes to all at Bailey/Coy - may you never set foot in a Barnes & Noble for so long as you live!
PS Don't even bother to apply at Amazon-the only time I ever went there no-one even said "hello" for hours and it's not a very nice place decor wise-I couldn't even find the book area-it reminded me of an old hospital lobby.
Maybe I don't want to move back to CH after all...
Well, now I won't feel guilty about passing by my neighborhood book store in favor of Bailey-Coy.
And to those of you who shop on line and in chain stores, well, what the hell did you expect?
(Since the holidays are coming up, do consider giving books--they're art, they don't go out of style, they support writers and bookstores, they don't contribute to the plastic-made-in-China-instantly-obsolete-crap industry, the recipient can use them whenever it's most convenient, or simply pass them along to others, and finally, they can be composted or sold when you're done with them.)
Errrrrr, 15th st. I can do, but Blockbuster isn't quite what i'd think of for Indie.
"Uhm, maybe I'd be more sad if I had actually felt like the people who worked there actually wanted me to spend my money there. Every time I walked in, I got major 'tude and lots of eye rolling. Eventually I just stopped going in."
I really have no clue what you're talking about. Even if they were busy they weren't the fictional hipstersnotty you seem to be implying.