We love bookstores and Chris has been posting our visits on the blog. So far we have 25 bookstores from around the world from Moscow to Tokyo. Below is a sample of the posts, click on the link to see them.
As much as Amazon is a threat especially to many small bookstores in the US, the bookstores (at least the major ones) have not disappeared outside the US. Thank God.
From the oldest in the world in Lisbon to a super modern store in Sao Paulo – both selling mostly Portuguese language books …
Sao Paulo, Livraria Cultura at Iguatemi mall
From MIT which publishes academic books on advanced technologies to the Parisian publisher who puts out reprints of early 20th century original (translated) work by Einstein and many other physicists and mathematicians …
We will keep this series up.
Hope you find these posts interesting. To find our other posts on bookstores, just click on books in the Categories on the sidebar of any one of these posts, or use the tag bookstore.