Word: bookshops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communism Crusade, Christian Crusade, American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, Labor Youth League, Civil Rights Congress, Communist Party, Jefferson School of Social Science, New York School for Marxist Studies, Young Communist League, American Peace Crusade, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Nation of Islam, International Workers Order, Washington Bookshop Association, Fair Play for Cuba Committee, or the Southern Conference for Human Welfare...
...booksellers, but his main effect on the others has been to convince them that the key to survival is more attractive stores, better service and larger selections. A New York University survey showed that eight out of ten regular book buyers would rather pay list price in a regular bookshop than go to a discounter for the sake of the markdown. Many buyers go into a store with only a vague idea of what they want, need attentive salesmen (all too rare) to guide them to their choice. "Give me five minutes' conversation with a man about books," says...
Easy Transition. The book clubs are no longer the threat they once seemed -and neither, of course, are the paperbacks. Sellers say the clubs cater to many people who could not get to a bookshop, otherwise help store sales with generous advertisements in national magazines. Paperbacks, which give the seller only half the hardcover markup, have proved to bring in buyers who would never have been attracted otherwise, also introduce many younger people to serious reading. "Soon a person is going from a 75? novel to a $5 novel," says Joseph B. Anderson, owner of a bookshop in Larchmont...
Since pornography is now available at every neighborhood bookshop and drugstore, the idea of satirizing the pornographic novel was bound to occur to someone. If done with Swiftian skill, it could be defended on moral as well as literary grounds, even though it could easily descend to the level of a vice crusader's wet-lipped discourse on the evils of vice...
...Pickwick Bookshop Hollywood...