{"id":42164,"date":"2011-06-29T15:19:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T23:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=12605"},"modified":"2011-06-29T15:19:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T23:19:25","slug":"no-bookstores-in-nashville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/29\/no-bookstores-in-nashville\/","title":{"rendered":"No bookstores in Nashville?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ann_Patchett\">Ann Patchett<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/thephoenix.com\/boston\/arts\/121442-ann-patchett-finds-her-readers\/?page=1#TOPCONTENT\">claiming<\/a>. More specifically, there are no bricks &amp; mortar institutions which specialize in selling new books. There <em>are<\/em> places you can get used books in the city of Nashville.  To remedy the situation Patchett is opening up a bookstore herself. She asserts that &#8220;&#8230;we&#8217;ve got to get back to a 3000-square-foot store and not 30,000. Amazon is always going to have everything &#8211; you can&#8217;t compete with that. But there is, I believe, still a place for a store where people read books.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I recall going to a Barnes &amp; Noble when I was in Nashville in the summer of 2004. Here&#8217;s some demographic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nashville-Davidson_(balance),_Tennessee\">data<\/a>: &#8220;As of the 2010 census, the balance population was 601,222. The 2000 population was 545,524.&#8221; The details here are a bit muddy because parts of Davidson county are included with the Nashville total, but you get a general sense of how substantial the population of this city is. As a point of comparison Eugene, OR, has a population of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eugene,_Oregon\">156,185<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/search?find_desc=bookstores&amp;ns=1&amp;find_loc=eugene,+or#cflt=bookstores&amp;l=p:OR:Eugene::\">29 Yelp hits<\/a> for bookstores. Nashville has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/search?find_desc=bookstores&amp;ns=1&amp;find_loc=eugene,+or#cflt=bookstores&amp;find_loc=Nashville,+TN\">46 results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back to Patchett&#8217;s claim, I think there is something there. I don&#8217;t know how it&#8217;s &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/BZeDVAYibRc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what Ann Patchett is claiming. More specifically, there are no bricks &amp; mortar institutions which specialize in selling new books. There are places you can get used books in the city of Nashville.  To remedy the situation Patchett is o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42305,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42164\/revisions\/42305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}