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"I am of a generation who can remember some of Melbourne’s lost bookshops:
Halls, The Bookshop of Margareta Webber, H.A. Evans and Son, McGill’s and more
recently – Alice’s Bookshop, Book Affair and Academic and General, among
others.
With the closing of a bookshop there is a fraying of the threads of Melbourne
culture. Melbourne was once a city where bookshops were common. It is a city
now reduced to a handful. This matters.
The demise of a bookshop is the loss of a cultural institution. Margins are
tight and the pandemic was, for some, the last hurrah. Online is the scourge of
bookshops. It is cheap and convenient, but a reader loses out on so much of
what a bookshop offers."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
