Paris booksellers angry at plans to ‘hide’ their stalls during Olympics
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Ok, I've never heard of 1 of those 3 things, I'll let you guess which it is.
> But the city has invited them to move to a specially created "bookseller village" in a "literary neighbourhood near to the Seine" for the duration of the 33rd Olympiad between 26 July and 11 August.
> However, Callais said the proposed location of Bastille square was not a realistic solution and no other compensation had been proposed.
> "No one is going to go to that market," he said
Hold up now, do people come to Paris to see booksellers or not? Cause if they do they will go where you are.
It's hard for me to see this as anything but the equivalent of the kiosks in the mall that I abhor but someone please tell me if I'm wrong. If these booksellers are actually a net positive and if the Olympic committee are being jerks about it.
and that's not including the lost sales expected during the first few weeks of a new location. Or the "new" sales they'd obviously get if not being relocated.
This sounds a lot like the grumpy old people who got my local downtown bike race cancelled because customers had to park a couple minutes away from their store. The entire event lasts less than half a day. For a single day of the year…
And we wonder why it costs so much to do anything at all these days. Grumpy people just don’t want to let others have nice things.
Just having some stalls somewhere is not an adequate substitution.