{"id":6822,"date":"2015-02-21T10:09:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T18:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=6822"},"modified":"2015-02-21T10:09:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T18:09:33","slug":"an-important-bookstore-wants-to-stay-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/21\/an-important-bookstore-wants-to-stay-open\/","title":{"rendered":"an important bookstore wants to stay open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Borderlands Books is an important enough independent SF\/Fantasy\/Horror bookstore in California that it has a Wikipedia entry nobody has even nominated for deletion<\/a>. But like most independent (and many not-so-independent) physical resellers, they’ve had trouble competing with digital and online-only sellers, and have reached a crisis point.<\/p>\n

And as a mostly-digital artist doing mostly-digital work, I still think physical media matters. I think used books matter, too, which is why I buy only DRM-free books in digital form. Seanan McGuire has talked a good bit about how much used book matters, and while I already cared, her thoughts made me care more.<\/p>\n

But as I said above, Borderlands Books have hit a crisis point, much like Scarecrow Video did here in Cascadia last year, and are faced with having to close down. But, also like Scarecrow, they’re trying a new path to staying around<\/a>. They’re looking for sponsors, more or less – they aren’t going the complete 501(c)3 route, since unlike Scarecrow, they aren’t a library-like environment, so that wouldn’t work as well. But it’s similar.<\/p>\n

Reaction has already been strongly positive<\/a>, and in a day they made it more than halfway towards goal. So if you have interests in this sort of thing, and have the money to be a sponsor, go give their proposal a look<\/a>. Californians in particular – go see what you think.<\/p>\n

Let’s keep the bookstores open, why don’t we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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