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How are you supposed to know if you'll like a book if you can't read some of it.
It had a nice little cafe too, its not like they won't make money on people buying a few coffees and snacks as they read a book they might not buy.
How are you supposed to know you'll like a book if you can't read some of it?
Judge it by its cover, obviously.
Yeah, that bookstore looks pretty upscale, nearly a boutique, especially in a developing country. Not unlike others built for bookworms where browsers are free to read almost anything.
In such a bookstore, the customer is not always right.
Asides from the protection from humidity and dirt, I feel they also don't want to sell a frayed damaged book or magazine -- I feel that would count for them as a loss -- unless the customer paid for it, so they put limits on casual browsing. This, RFID tags and CCTV cameras to deter shoplifters.
Otherwise and in some places they put out a selection of open unwrapped publications and let anyone, provided they also pay for the coffee or hang around and pay by the hour, to read at their leisure in a dedicated cafe.
Only sure way for you to know a new book is to scope out the copy online if it has an ebook equivalent.
Soo why go there to buy a book instead of ordering it cheaper online?
Maybe you know the title of the book you're looking for (e.g. you have already read it or heard about it) and just need the title?
i dunno, it just hits me wrong, I also refuse to "go find an associate" to get socks out of lockup. I'll buy them online from a competitor and have them shipped to my house before i get out of the aisle.
Shop local when you can. Online is narrowing a market and once there's only one place to buy they can control the price.
When it comes to books pay the author if you can, publisher second if you have to, and online retailer last.
If I can look in the book, sure.
Hell if there's just one of each open. sure.
Any brick and mortar bookstore that does that shit will go out of business screaming people don't want to read anymore.
I'll go to con and buy a book from an author. I'll buy it from their website. I'll go to a book signing.
They want to shrink wrap all their shit. I'm not down for the bullshit games. Plastic waste for sake of waste, or are they trying to make sure that noone picks up a book and reads from it? I don't really care why. I just know i'd walk the f out of there and not go back.
Wrapping in plastic is never an authors choice, and I fully support you avoiding a place that does that.
Not everyone can spend the big money for cons, some will grab what is the most affordable. Hopefully that means a local shop without that wrap, but someone reading any way they can is the most important start.
more plastic misuse. distusting.
Some online booksellers will let you download a few pages of a book to read before purchase.
You can do that and decide if you want to buy the physical copy.
That said, fuck this place. The joy of opening a new book and reading some of it is part of the process. I’d never come back.
Why everything gotta involve plastic.
Because it's a byproduct of the petrochemical industry and is not only basically free, but they actually cannot stop producing it or the cogs of the industry will seize up.
We must continue poisoning our environment or the poison the environment machine will break down.
you pirate it first and then buy it from a different store. Go in there with a pen and paper to write down the titles you will look up later or just take pictures with your phone. If they ask say "Im going to look up if I want to buy these later since I cant look inside it" and then if they're responsible for the decision behind the wrapping you tell them "thank you so much for treating your customers as annoyances and opting to hinder their purchasing decision-making. I appreciate the efficiency in communicating your priorities"
What about the library?
I usually borrow the book first, then I buy it if I liked it
There is the National Library, which has a commercial coffee shop attached. They do their best with the funds they have.
It's pretty common in Japan, but specifically for manga.
It's really weird that Tsutaya would do this because although it was frowned upon in Japan to spend too long reading a book without buying it, Tsutaya was the one to change that norm. They even introduced cafes on premise where you can bring books that you haven't paid for.
I went to another book store, and only 90% of the books were wrapped in plastic, so I guess its just a Cambodia, Taiwan, and Philippines thing. Weird part is that I never saw it in Vietnam or China.
I live in Taiwan and the humidity kills books and makes them damp and stinky. So some places our books are wrapped.
Most commercial establishments in the US are air-conditioned. Taiwan has
as you point out
a pretty warm, humid climate. Are Taiwanese bookstores not not typically air-conditioned? I'd think that they'd be a prime candidate.
I was reading about public library humidity and temperature control a month or two back, and it sounded like it was also pretty much the norm to air condition those, for the preservation reasons that you mention.
Even if they are air conditioned it’s quite likely that the air conditioning does not run 24/7
Conditional air conditioning as it were. Novel.
A lot of cultures also don't run AC as cold as the US does.
Growing up, the AC was consistently set to 28C (83F). It was only on from around 2pm to 11pm (via a sleep timer). This was also in a location with extreme humidity.
You read the synopsis on the back? That's why that's there. It also makes sure that books stay new instead of getting covered in greasy fingerprints and folded pages, people genuinely do not care about other people's stuff.
The summary or press endorsements are totally inadequate imo. I always read a page or two somewhere in the middle to check if I enjoy reading it. Fortunately books tend to be sold unwrapped where I live. And no, they're not grimy or anything like that, people do respect them.
Graphic novels do tend to be sold wrapped where I live (at least in my usual store), so those I look up online to read a few sample pages. Imo never judge a book by it's cover.
Additionally the summary far to often contains major spoilers.
I also read the first few pages and a random place in the middle which is not achapter ending, works very well.
Books here are in Germany also open and in perfect condition. In Italy, where I sometimes browse stores, its the same.
A god compromise could be to have one unwrapped copy for display and browsing purposes and all other copies are wrapped, so you can use the unwrapped copy to read through a few pages and then grab a wrapped copy for purchase
Sounds like Fully Booked in the Philippines. Books aren't allowed to be browsed before you buy them, sofas aren't allowed to be sat in before you buy them. It's nonsense.
No way in hell I’m buying a sofa without sitting in it. They never feel like one would expect.
It was Tsutaya in Cambodia.
Is Fully Booked popular? I've never seen a bookstore do this, but its the first one I've seen in Cambodia so maybe lack of competition lets them get away with it.
Japan does love to wrap literally everything purchasable in stores in plastic. Abroad wouldn't be immune to this since shared supply chains.
The whole idea plastic waste is bad doesn't seem to have made it over to Asia.
When we wrap out books, it's usually manga. But it's weird for Tsutaya of all stores to do it because the ones here aren't wrapped and they were the first to promote customers to read before purchasing.
Do you got a source for that? I wasn't finding anything to explain why or if this is true. Not trying to call BS, I just need to know more.
The source is me living in the Philippines for many, many years. Go to the department stores, and they will direct you away from the sofas if you sit on them. Can't sell a used sofa. Most businesses in the Philippines operate in this way with squeezing a profit from every little thing they can.
Could it be the books are wrapped to protect against humidity? This may not be the whole reason why they do it but it wouldn't be the worst one.
I remember some manga stores in Japan where the staff would go around stopping you from opening them whenever they saw it. I'm a very slow Japanese reader. I just wanted to get a taste of it and wouldn't have read that far, but they would have none of it.
I only buy manga that's wrapped. Because when you unwrap it there will be anime boobs inside.
Ok, I can see where that would be hentai-cing.
I went to a bookstore two days ago, because I knew they had a copy of LOTR and I wanted to see if it had the map included before buying it.
It was the only book that had plastic wrap on it. I didn't buy it...
Seals in the flavor