{"id":7126,"date":"2015-04-23T09:21:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T16:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=7126"},"modified":"2015-04-23T09:21:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T16:21:39","slug":"housing-works-bookstore-cafe-shows-how-indie-bookstores-can-win-in-the-age-of-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/housing-works-bookstore-cafe-shows-how-indie-bookstores-can-win-in-the-age-of-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing Works Bookstore Caf\u00e9 Shows How Indie Bookstores Can Win In The Age Of Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2015\/04\/CALLOUT_Bookstore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-7128\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2015\/04\/CALLOUT_Bookstore.jpg\" alt=\"CALLOUT_Bookstore\" width=\"357\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2015\/04\/CALLOUT_Bookstore.jpg 404w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2015\/04\/CALLOUT_Bookstore-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/a>Remember The Shop Around the Corner? The charming children\u2019s bookstore tragically had to close its doors in 1998 after Fox Books &#8212; a big box store with latt\u00e9s, low prices and unbeatable selection &#8212; ran it out of business.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, that\u2019s just the plot of the classic Meg Ryan-Tom Hanks vehicle &#8220;You\u2019ve Got Mail,&#8221; but it was never purely fiction. The battle between Ryan\u2019s tiny independent bookstore and Hanks\u2019 behemoth was being played out, with admittedly less romance, all over the country. Read more of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/04\/21\/independent-bookstore-housing-works_n_7103904.html?utm_hp_ref=books\">Huffingtonpost online article about Housing Works Bookstore Cafe<\/a> and see the video too!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember The Shop Around the Corner? The charming children\u2019s bookstore tragically had to close its doors in 1998 after Fox Books &#8212; a big box store with latt\u00e9s, low prices and unbeatable selection &#8212; ran it out of business. Sure, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/housing-works-bookstore-cafe-shows-how-indie-bookstores-can-win-in-the-age-of-amazon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7129,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126\/revisions\/7129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}