Williamsburg Bookstore Turns 10

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Thanks to Verse Responder, Leon Freilich for sending this Times' piece about the 10th anniversary of a great Williamsburg bookstore. What a nice coincidence Spoonbill & Sugartown Booksellers are celebrating their first decade during New York Independent Bookstore Week. Here from the City Room at the New York Times.

The seemingly endless recession, the growing attraction of Kindles and the steady shuttering of bookstores gave the owners of one bookstore in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, even more reason to celebrate today. They’re still open.

Spoonbill & Sugartown Booksellers observed its 10th anniversary Tuesday morning with a ceremony on the sidewalk in front of the shop, on Bedford Avenue. Over the din of construction, a co-founder of the store, Miles Bellamy, urged the crowd of about two dozen book lovers to reflect for 10 seconds on a book they had read over the past decade. Then 10 women dressed in white sang a song written by Mr. Bellamy in the store’s honor.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/10-years-of-book-selling-in-an-online-age/