[Madhatter]

Originally Posted by garinda

I thought that this thread was about that, that we can't buy books/music, other than popular music in Accrington.

You can't hold a book on Amazon, flick through it, read the dust cover etc. and then decide if you'd like to buy it.

It's the same with music. Blackburn has Reidy's, which has a wide selection of all kinds of music, and they'll let you listen to something if you ask them. Accy does have MusicZone and the staff are very friendly, headed by our own Miss Ormerod.

Market forces dictate what we get. I'm sure if there was a market for more bookshops we'd have them.

Talking of cultural deserts, I remember when Mid Pennines Arts put on exciting contemporary dance troupes, Shakespeare and other touring dramas, rather than the somewhat limited second rate pop acts we now get in Hyndburn, and no it's a not a dig at Gayle I know booking what we get isn't your job. It just seems a shame that Burnley seems to have been chosen as the centre for arts in the area, and all we are fit for is the pap.

Some people go on the net find it on amazon, read the reviews, then go to the bookshop to buy it.
Some people predicted that book sales would drop because of the internet but they have gone up because of the it.