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.)
posted by LAGuy @ 12:16 AM
4 Comments:
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?
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. . . ."
Its hardly spam, you putrid fatass
My God, it's learned to respond. I can't stand it.
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