New Hughes & Hughes

[gothwalk]

Originally published at Now Is A Long Time Too. You can comment here or there.

A new bookshop, one of the Hughes & Hughes chain, opened today in Dun Laoghaire, with a Costa Coffee branch upstairs. It seems like a thoroughly decent bookshop - decent range of books and magazines, plenty of non-fiction (the travel section in particular was really impressive) and chairs here and there, which I always consider important. It certainly knocks the local Easons into a cocked hat, and the only other bookshop in the town is the well-concealed Dubray Books, on the top floor of the shopping centre. Dubray don’t carry magazines, though, and the long narrow layout isn’t as attractive as H&H’s semi-open, semi-rooms approach - similar to the UK branches of Barnes & Noble I’ve been in.

Comments

[cpio.livejournal.com]

Not meaning to be the devil's advocate (which I do have a tendency to play), and asking purely out of interest and curiosity, what alternative was there for the Net Book Agreement which was essentially a cartel-like anti-competitive mechanism?

You said: "So, basically your choice is between fuckers, fuckers, and fuckers. As is so often the case. Let us celebrate the freedom of choice granted to us by capitalism! Now go shop, dutiful consumer." I'm not sure how to take his -- it feels like a stab at capitalism but is actually an endorsement of free trade practices because the dutiful consumer is ultimately the one holding the purse strings.

[slovobooks.livejournal.com]

Where in Dun Laoghaire is it, as I still occasionally find myself in the land of my mis-spent youth?