Wednesday, March 30, 2011

No Library

At a nearby inside newsstand I was amazed at how many signs there were saying "No Food And Drinks" and "No Reading." Back in the days before I was on the internet, I spent a lot of time at newsstands, and I saw them as reading rooms.  That was the whole point.  Not that I wouldn't buy anything, but I wasn't gonna buy everything. You need to sample the merchandise.

But what really intrigued me was another sign plastered all over the place: "No Leer." I assume this is for the Spanish-speaking population, but considering the number of porn magazines, it seemed to have a useful second meaning. (By the way, Louis C. K. has a joke about reading in a porn shop that I won't repeat here, but you can find in this interview with Sarah Silverman.)

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have reviewed a business model to these type of places whose attraction is that people can read a lot but the free reading impacts profits. Barnes & Noble/Borders sell coffee drinks and other impulse items but small news stands don't have that kind of ambiance- Solution: charge admission and apply it or some portion of it to a sale.

If they are charging for online access to print media, isn't this next?

7:48 AM, March 30, 2011  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow. How did that spam sneak through? (In case it's deleted, it's one of those hysterical momentarily-sounds-plausible comments that is currently in style: "I have reviewed a business model to these type of places whose attraction is that people can read a lot but the free reading impacts profits. . . ."

11:34 AM, March 30, 2011  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Its hardly spam, you putrid fatass

3:28 AM, March 31, 2011  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

My God, it's learned to respond. I can't stand it.

10:14 AM, March 31, 2011  

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