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Rocket Bomber - article - site news - commentary - Thank You - handy-shorthand-title - but we're moving on


Thank You, handy-shorthand-title, but we're moving on

filed under , 8 November 2012, 15:24 by

SO my last “Rethinking the Box” column was, in fact, my Last “rethinking the box” column.

I think I’ve done as much damage there as I can. In looking at the origin of the Big Box Bookstore and then taking it to fairly exotic places, I’d say my infatuation with the Box is done.

In future essays, I’d like to focus more on bookselling and less on 4-walls-and-a-cafe. The business of books has already moved forward a whole century in just the last 10 years, and we have even more growth and adaptation ahead of us.

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All essays of course remain for you to re-read (or newly discover), indexed on my Bookselling Resources page [http://www.rocketbomber.com/bookselling] and the new set of long-form-thought-pieces will be added there as well. This isn’t so much an abandonment of principles as a change in focus and required mental readjustment.



Comment

  1. Its hard to see why you’d stop where you did.

    After moving from bookstores embedded in pubs, cinemas, community centers, through to bookstore related stores embedded in a multi-state super bookstore, I figured the next step would be to take over a medium size city in the middle of the country to serve as a bookstore destination for the entire nation.

    Comment by BruceMcF — 10 November 2012, 14:21 #

  2. @BruceMcF …you’ve said too much.

    Ha ha. I kid. [stares … … …]

    In the event of a cataclysm, zombie apocalypse, or Republican administration: I will be the governor of Booktown, preserving knowledge through the latest dark age for future generations.

    Comment by Matt Blind — 10 November 2012, 19:54 #

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Yes, all the links are broken.

On June 1, 2015 (after 6 years and 11 months) I needed to relaunch/restart this blog, or at least rekindle my interest in maintaining and updating it.

Rather than delete and discard the whole thing, I instead moved the blog -- database, cms, files, archives, and all -- to this subdomain. When you encounter broken links (and you will encounter broken links) just change the URL in the address bar from www.rocketbomber.com to archive.rocketbomber.com.

I know this is inconvenient, and for that I apologise. In addition to breaking tens of thousands of links, this also adversely affects the blog visibility on search engines -- but that, I'm willing to live with. Between the Wayback Machine at Archive.org and my own half-hearted preservation efforts (which you are currently reading) I feel nothing has been lost, though you may have to dig a bit harder for it.

As always, thank you for reading. Writing version 1.0 of Rocket Bomber was a blast. For those that would like to follow me on the 2.0 - I'll see you back on the main site.

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