The city's retail mega malls serve English and Thai readers especially well with smart, well laid-out bookstores like Japanese bookstore chain Kinokuniya and Asia Books in the Siam Paragon mall, the largest English language bookstore chain in Thailand.
Josie, spirited and smart, prefers the local bookstore, where she hangs around so often that the owner, Charlie, gives her a room in the attic when she is 11.
Despite their big-city location, the street's indie bookstores, quirky coffeehouses and smart boutiques feel more like small-town hangouts, with stroller-pushing locals popping in to chat up proprietors.
A used bookstore is a swell place to drink coffee and look smart while you peruse the poetry section.
You can lock the bookstore on iOS to prevent children from getting in, but smarter children may spot the parental controls and unlock it again.
Google, without its own e-reader, wants to be a Switzerland of sorts, competing with Barnes & Noble and other e-book sellers to become the preferred digital bookstore on devices other than the iPad or the Kindle, such as Android smart phones.
Your local bookstore is filled with books like Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point and Howard Rheingold's Smart Mobs, which aim to explain the kinetics of culture and how they turn into "the ideas and products" that "spread like viruses," to use Gladwell's words.
On the one hand, this appears to be a smart move for Facebook, as college students are fed up with buying expensive textbooks from their college bookstores.
Oz is in bookstores, where you can find half a dozen titles in the ongoing "You" series — including "You: The Smart Patient," "You: On a Diet" and "You: Having a Baby" — that he has written with Dr. Michael F. Roizen, the unofficial co-chairman of what might be called Oz Industries.
From "All Those Smart Kids, Where Is Their Individuality?" Oct. 19, 1969 Before the war, the area from Union Square down to Astor Place was lined with secondhand bookstores.
