peachynat Wrote:Cool... congrats on your upcoming anniversary.

Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:22 years this May 21st, Peachynat. I'm the Performing Arts supervisor at the Lincoln Triangle store, Broadway and 66th Street in Manhattan. We were delighted to have Paul for an event in December 2003, and are looking forward to welcoming him again this June 1st.

luthie2 Wrote:Now THERE would be a dangerous place to work!! :-)

jimbow8 Wrote:I am with you Mike. I still use Amazon (too much) but I am trying to switch to B&N

Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Thanks, Jim! B&N isn't a bad outfit. I've met many of the top hombres. Why, I even once shook Len Riggio's hand!

It was almost an hour before I noticed my watch was missing...

Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:22 years this May 21st, Peachynat. I'm the Performing Arts supervisor at the Lincoln Triangle store, Broadway and 66th Street in Manhattan. We were delighted to have Paul for an event in December 2003, and are looking forward to welcoming him again this June 1st.

jimbow8 Wrote:I always liked B&N, but the one closest to where I used to live (Rockford, IL) was pretty crappy and in an awful location. So when I moved I started using Borders more. And Amazon.com online is like a juggernaut. But lately I've started noticing poor customer service at Borders, so I started going to B&N. The only problem is that Borders is bigger with a larger selection and has more "events."

Scott Miller Wrote:How can any horror maven shop at a place that lumps horror in with the general fiction? Shame on B & N, although I do admit to receiving excellent service on the few occasions I've needed to use them.

Maggers Wrote:I hate to say it Mike, but I'm boycotting your store. Since they revamped the first floor and now have only one measily stand with fewer than a handful of what you now call "mass market paperbacks," I refuse to shop there. I want the freedom of running in and out of the first floor with the very convenient pocketbook-sized (so named because they fit in your pocket) paperbacks readily available. The new layout on your first floor is overflowing with the more expensive "trade paperback" books. They cost easily $5 more than pocketbooks. I don't want that size. Give me my now seemingly old-fashioned pocketbooks.

I generally don't have time to schlep to the 2nd floor to see what's hot in new paperbacks, so I'm shopping elsewhere. It's a shame. The old layout of the first floor B&N at Lincoln Center was great. They took a good thing and made it bad, IMO.

Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:I agree 100%, wonderful Maggers, but yo!--'twerent =mah idear!= Puh-puh-please come back...(sob!) You can even use my discount...