tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post8932499940909035775..comments2024-03-18T17:05:21.126+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Death of a Bookshop – Michelle LovricUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-47722837763138378662011-02-15T20:35:07.871+00:002011-02-15T20:35:07.871+00:00Also, there is now amazon.it. And while I browsed ...Also, there is now amazon.it. And while I browsed for my books in the independent in Salerno, it was 18 euros there and only 12 euros online. This cannot be ignored.Leilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02890097085059764567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-45232411524509186692011-02-15T20:31:26.931+00:002011-02-15T20:31:26.931+00:00Ah. Interesting. Our local city is Salerno, and I ...Ah. Interesting. Our local city is Salerno, and I am always astonished at the sheer number of bookshops there are there. There's a small Mondadori, a middle-sized Feltrinelli and a bundle of small independents. And these are proper bookshops, not WH 'we really sell sandwiches but we stock Harry Potter too' Smiths. A British town of equivalent size would be lucky to have two Waterstone'ss (THINKS: What *is* the plural of Waterstone's?). I was all set to make something of this, to Italy's advantage - but I guess not.Leilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02890097085059764567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-45276007736325051622011-02-15T14:06:45.500+00:002011-02-15T14:06:45.500+00:00Very sad, and very well put, Michelle. Sigh...
Le...Very sad, and very well put, Michelle. Sigh...<br /><br />LeslieLeslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-59739511064522435522011-02-14T23:22:23.046+00:002011-02-14T23:22:23.046+00:00And yesterday I just started to read your novel Th...And yesterday I just started to read your novel The Book of Human Skin.... so sad to hear of the demise of another palace of dreams.Lynda Waterhousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04880769618542325268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-41783690291760941962011-02-14T13:26:29.490+00:002011-02-14T13:26:29.490+00:00I mourn the passing, too. The presence of a shop l...I mourn the passing, too. The presence of a shop like Mondadori makes Venice seem like a real place, a working city instead of a tourist fantasy island. Louis V will have the opposite effect. Good news that the shop may be moving rather than disappearing. You'll just have to go and admire your book somewhere else. Salani certainly do exceedlingly nice covers!Celia Reeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05059549379622664741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-71581007236051268712011-02-14T10:16:36.005+00:002011-02-14T10:16:36.005+00:00Wondering what's the point of any handbag, Vui...Wondering what's the point of any handbag, Vuitton or otherwise, if it's not for carrying books about in?<br /><br />Glad there are better plans ahead in Venice.Penny Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386668303428008498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-91941240578770969932011-02-14T09:14:07.406+00:002011-02-14T09:14:07.406+00:00I hope the bookshop finds its premises - at least,...I hope the bookshop finds its premises - at least, it's good that it had to close because of the dictates of big business, rather than because people weren't using it. As for libraries here, you do wonder if they've thought ahead at all. It was pointed out at a recent council meeting I went to that it actually costs quite a lot to close buildings; you can't just leave them to rot, and who's going to take them over in the present climate? It seems to be all about cashing in in the short term - now, it's the forests, for heaven's sake! Do they really think they can get it all out of the way in their first year of office, and then we'll all have forgotten about it by the time of the next election? Forgotten that they've sold off our heritage, the family jewels? Honestly, this lot make Dr Beeching look like a public benefactor...Sue Purkisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09084528571944803477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-80782496860869821382011-02-14T08:06:20.080+00:002011-02-14T08:06:20.080+00:00Anne, it's brilliant idea to use the abandoned...Anne, it's brilliant idea to use the abandoned libraries as writers' colonies, including feral young writers! <br /><br />Yes, it's very sad about Mondadori. But there is hope, in Venice anyway. Giovanni Pelizzato, who ran Mondadori and is proprietor of the three small Toletta bookshops, says that they are looking for other premises of a similar size. Staff at the shop this weekend said that nothing had yet been found. But the events space is to be transferred to the Casinò di Venezia, continuing under Pelizzato’s management. And one positive aspect of the reorganisation is the establishment of a bookshop dedicated to children in the premises that used to house art books (now transferred to the architecture shop). When I went to visit The Undrowned Child, newly published in Italian, I found the genial Sandro presiding over a happy child-friendly Toletta Kids shop with soft stools and ample space for pushchairs. While most of the vast Mondadori stock (two large floors of it) had to go back to the distribution centre, nearly all the children’s books were transferred to Toletta Kids. A little candle in a naughty world.michelle lovrichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01026972300195225090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-76957609441383327942011-02-14T06:43:01.050+00:002011-02-14T06:43:01.050+00:00Oh no! So sad to hear of the demise of Mondadori&#...Oh no! So sad to hear of the demise of Mondadori's. How many Louis Vuitton shops can one city sustain?<br /><br />An excellent question about what happens to locked libraries. I suggest we all move into them as squatters. I'm up for it. I can rent out my house and live in a library and write and I won't even need to chase my publishers for money as I'll have all that rental income. Maybe we could invite in feral children who will become socialised and intellectual. I feel a book coming on.... the children who live in libraries. It will be a post-apocolapytic utopia.Stroppy Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16560035800075465845noreply@blogger.com