Dear Friends I add at the end. j ****************** ---------- >From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Cooperative bookstore >Date: Mon, Feb 28, 2000, 2:26 pm > >"M.Blackmore" wrote: >> >> THIS ain't such a silly idea.... Any thoughts on how one could go about >> it, either a good dot.com, or a physical site...? Perhaps we are going to >> have to start reinventing - for similar reasons - what our 19th century >> ancestors had to do in Britain with the cooperative movement... >> >> *From:* "john courtneidge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >[snip] >> Dear f/w friends >> >> Time to set up a co-operative bookstore (to stock the stuff that others >> hide >> away? > >Of course I sympathize as well as empathize with this idea. >But I am curious about its practicability. Can someone >tell me what are the "stuff that others hide away"? (I've >gotten some pretty obscure things from Amazon -- which >is a fact, not a feeling....) > >Maybe I don't know what I'm missing? > > Other than chance encounters, > You can only encounter in reality > what you have previously encountered in fantasy. > (--Gordon Hirshhorn) > >"Yours in discourse...." > >+\brad mccormick > >-- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > >Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] >914.238.0788 / 27 Poillon Rd, Chappaqua NY 10514-3403 USA >------------------------------------------------------- ><![%THINK;[XML]]> Visit my website: http://www.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > ****************** My thoughts really were around a physical location (downtown Toronto? ) It seems that a good browsing red/green/co-operative bookshop could well be mightily valuable. 'Bookmarks' in London moved closer to central London about two years ago and seems to flourish (it is run by the Socialist Workers Party) and Octopus Books in the Glebe in Ottawa (a (socialist ?) co-operative, I think) also seems in good order. Agreed the point about Amazon (tho' their listing of titles found under a search for 'usury' as the keyword promised more than was fully delivered), but a physical site allows for serendipity, promotion of the best writing - in terms, I'd hope, of solutions rather than analysis - and to be accessible as a shared, *visible* space. My possibilities for doing this in London (England) are, presently, limited, but Canada might be a more plausible location. (And, perhaps, New York !!??) As always, my hugs to you all, Your Friend in peace, equality and co-operation, john **************
