{"id":7550,"date":"2016-03-21T11:19:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T16:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/?p=7550"},"modified":"2025-07-29T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T21:05:00","slug":"the-perfect-bookstore-v-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/the-perfect-bookstore-v-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The perfect bookstore v.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/the-perfect-bookstore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Part 1<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/the-perfect-bookstore-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Part 2<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/the-perfect-bookstore-decadence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Part 4<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Eight years ago. EIGHT. 8!!!<\/p>\n<p>I wrote this: <a href=\"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/the-perfect-bookstore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Perfect Bookstore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Six years ago, I wrote the followup: <a href=\"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/the-perfect-bookstore-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Perfect Bookstore<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, my good friend <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160319032234\/http:\/\/the-digital-reader.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nate Hoffelder<\/a>, digital maven and my occasional partner in crime, pointed me to this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160329193128\/http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/entertainment\/famed-publisher-opens-paris-first-on-demand-only-bookshop\/article_3d8d05f4-1ce0-5a6f-b6ff-beb6caf40f12.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paris\u2019s first on-demand-only bookshop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Point-by-point similarities:<\/p>\n<ol class=\"post\">\n<li class=\"number\">The concept itself<\/li>\n<li class=\"number\">The coffee shop<\/li>\n<li class=\"number\">Its location near a college<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Best part?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"normal\"><p>Meriot said he needs to sell about 15 books daily to break even.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s a margin even I didn\u2019t foresee.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16141 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20160321_parisbookstore.jpg\" alt=\"An image of Parisian bookstore La Librairie des puf.\" width=\"550\" height=\"403\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4 Eight years ago. EIGHT. 8!!! I wrote this: The Perfect Bookstore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[531,544,537],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-2","category-bookselling","category-print-on-demand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7550"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16552,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions\/16552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}