{"id":4360,"date":"2009-12-22T14:50:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T14:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/22\/local-bookstore-report\/"},"modified":"2009-12-22T14:50:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T14:50:04","slug":"local-bookstore-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/22\/local-bookstore-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Bookstore Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-1e8ca3d6f1057cdc4f9532702467bc29-sm_cover_draft_atom.jpg\" alt=\"i-1e8ca3d6f1057cdc4f9532702467bc29-sm_cover_draft_atom.jpg\" \/>Not that I&#8217;m obsessed, or anything (current Amazon rank: 1106), but here are the results from my incomplete survey of local book stores regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/\"><cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barnes &amp; Noble: &#8220;Out of Stock&#8221; in all local stores. Has never been in stock, really.<\/li>\n<li>Borders in Crossgates Mall: &#8220;Likely in store&#8221; according to the book finder computer, but if they actually put any out, either they sold them, or they&#8217;re well hidden.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhny.com\/\">The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza<\/a>: Two copies prominently displayed in the top row of the &#8220;new arrivals&#8221; case, between David Byrne&#8217;s book about bicycling and John Perkins&#8217;s book about economic catastrophe. Each of those had six copies, so if the stacks started the same size, they sold a few of mine. There was another in the science section, face out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The moral: Hooray for local independent bookstores! They also provided me with the last thing I was looking for in the Christmas present category, so double hooray for the Book House.<\/p>\n<p>I promise I&#8217;ll blog about something else, soon, but you have to humor me for today, at least&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that I&#8217;m obsessed, or anything (current Amazon rank: 1106), but here are the results from my incomplete survey of local book stores regarding How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Barnes &amp; Noble: &#8220;Out of Stock&#8221; in all local stores. Has never been in stock, really. Borders in Crossgates Mall: &#8220;Likely in store&#8221; according&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/22\/local-bookstore-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Local Bookstore Report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,18,7,51,61,37,132,11,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-books","category-physics","category-physics_books","category-physics_with_emmy","category-pop_culture","category-publicity","category-science","category-science_books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}