<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post5036088351598260674..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5036088351598260674/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/this-weeks-death-of-bookstore-article.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>7</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5083743104939646481</id><published>2007-07-17T13:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-17T13:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>There must be something that the few surviving boo...</title><summary type='text'>There must be something that the few surviving bookstores are doing that the others need to know more about.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The huge capitalization of the B &amp; N chain is certainly a plus for them and the fact that they can buy a city block in a good area with lots of foot traffic must help.  Most smaller stores could never get that much floor space in the first place.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And most small businesses</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5036088351598260674/comments/default/5083743104939646481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5036088351598260674/comments/default/5083743104939646481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/this-weeks-death-of-bookstore-article.html?showComment=1184691660000#c5083743104939646481' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/this-weeks-death-of-bookstore-article.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5036088351598260674' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5036088351598260674' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 17, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8981216281847269617</id><published>2007-07-17T10:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-17T10:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>How about painters?  Should painters be able to ge...</title><summary type='text'>How about painters?  Should painters be able to get a royalty when one of their paintings is RE-sold for millions?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5036088351598260674/comments/default/8981216281847269617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5036088351598260674/comments/default/8981216281847269617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/this-weeks-death-of-bookstore-article.html?showComment=1184681340000#c8981216281847269617' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/this-weeks-death-of-bookstore-article.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5036088351598260674' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5036088351598260674' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 17, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-783147844022892218</id><published>2007-07-16T09:36:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-16T09:36:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>14 year copyrights? Just think, Ron, the copyright...</title><summary type='text'>14 year copyrights? Just think, Ron, the copyrights for The Age Of Huts would be expired before you finished publishing it, not to mention what it might cost your heirs.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think it&#39;s time we started making it a crime to call one&#39;s self an economist and anyone caught paying an economist should be, as they used to say down in my neck of the woods, &quot;Hanged by the neck until dead.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5036088351598260674/comments/default/783147844022892218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5036088351598260674/comments/default/783147844022892218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/this-weeks-death-of-bookstore-article.html?showComment=1184592960000#c783147844022892218' title=''/><author><name>Billy Jones</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16264147065000056960</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/this-weeks-death-of-bookstore-article.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5036088351598260674' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5036088351598260674' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-626270859"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 16, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5043266560032494011</id><published>2007-07-16T01:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-16T01:15:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>isn&#39;t it about time for a controversial subject-ho...</title><summary type='text'>isn&#39;t it about time for a controversial subject-how about poetry as a dead art form? or better yet, &quot;rethinking poetry 20000 years later&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5036088351598260674/comments/default/5043266560032494011'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5036088351598260674/comments/default/5043266560032494011'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/this-weeks-death-of-bookstore-article.html?showComment=1184562900000#c5043266560032494011' title=''/><author><name>olgastamata</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04903202618195858141</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/this-weeks-death-of-bookstore-article.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5036088351598260674' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5036088351598260674' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1991341245"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 16, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2408093378283151551</id><published>2007-07-15T23:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-15T23:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>O, the work of being a poet! Half-chapped &amp; the mo...</title><summary type='text'>O, the work of being a poet! Half-chapped &amp; the most wisely dreary&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;of minor headaches--the most explicit champagne of all?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5036088351598260674/comments/default/2408093378283151551'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5036088351598260674/comments/default/2408093378283151551'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/this-weeks-death-of-bookstore-article.html?showComment=1184557500000#c2408093378283151551' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12714098498354846094</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/this-weeks-death-of-bookstore-article.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5036088351598260674' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5036088351598260674' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-458221395"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 15, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7237011807681227008</id><published>2007-07-15T12:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-15T12:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I have heard differing attitudes about publishing ...</title><summary type='text'>I have heard differing attitudes about publishing chap books.  The positive say because they are so expensive people will be more likely to buy them and put your poetry in more peoples hands.  While chap books can be (but not always) very cheap looking and have no real staying power.  Once it&#39;s printed that&#39;s it.  I remember one local poet (I use the term lightly, she liked the idea of being a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5036088351598260674/comments/default/7237011807681227008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5036088351598260674/comments/default/7237011807681227008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/this-weeks-death-of-bookstore-article.html?showComment=1184518200000#c7237011807681227008' title=''/><author><name>The Cubicle Reverend</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07698802395603296603</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2612/1188/1600/Feb16%20016.0.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/this-weeks-death-of-bookstore-article.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5036088351598260674' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5036088351598260674' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1565099610"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 15, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7494215578941914699</id><published>2007-07-15T08:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-15T08:51:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Appropriating 100 million $ in state funds for the...</title><summary type='text'>Appropriating 100 million $ in state funds for the Ben Franklin Prkwy move in advance of saying they are trying to save the Barnes for Merion is typical of the gambling-corrupted politics of Pennsylvania.  Any move of the Barnes is in direct defiance of Dr. Barnes’ will and he knew what he was up against then, and structured his will accordingly.  If there’s a court in PA that’s on the level then</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5036088351598260674/comments/default/7494215578941914699'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5036088351598260674/comments/default/7494215578941914699'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/this-weeks-death-of-bookstore-article.html?showComment=1184503860000#c7494215578941914699' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/this-weeks-death-of-bookstore-article.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5036088351598260674' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5036088351598260674' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 15, 2007"/></entry></feed>