It's still not rocket surgery.
Posted on 02/13/2011 6:05:50 AM PST by RayChuang88
No Kindles in cafes? You’ve got to be kidding. This is an affront, not only to readers and gadget lovers, but also to the spirit of cafes!
Many indie New York City cafes now heavily restrict, or ban outright, the use of Kindles, Nooks and iPads. Evidently, too many coffee shops in town have had their ambience wrecked when itinerant word processors with laptops turn the tables into office space. Sure, that phenomenon can be depressing — whether you’re a scornful lady who lunches or the nomadic freelancer who fields glares. And full-dress computers are perhaps too much personal furniture for cafes to accommodate. But banning devices the size of books, like Kindles and iPads, is going too far, and it’s anathema to the character and history of cafes.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“These coffee shops are trying to “hold on to tradition” and they are going to really start losing money in the longer run.”
On Sunday, my wife and I would get the local papers and sit in our local cafe for hours. Granted we would eat breakfast, drink coffee and talk to friends.
The only difference is technology. I no longer have to kill a tree and destroy its ability to scrub harmful CO2 from the atmosphere, which is the reason why its -10 today.
I have a Kindle. I am saving the world.
Exactly. Cofee shops are for paying customers, like any other establishment. Why let a bunch of nonpaying selfish freeloaders take up all their seats and table space? If they want to sit and read their kindl all day they should go home or find a park bench.
NYawk. Figures.
The New York coffee shops miss the old days where patrons in shaggy clothes would congregate to listen to acoustic Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie songs while discussing Marxist politics and the overthrow of the imperialist, capitalist pigs.
Exactly. That’s what the article tells us if we think beyond the words of the author.
FTA: “Evidently, too many coffee shops in town have had their ambience wrecked when itinerant word processors with laptops turn the tables into office space.”
Borders has a slew of problems and a rotten business model.
Note to the folks who want ambiance with their java: Put your money where your mouths are and spend some.
Except that trees are renewable and CO2 is not dangerous...
Stop talking sense!
You ban my Kindle - you ban my wallet!
However, were it me, I'd get rude to these slobs and ask them to leave after 1 hour and one coffee. Wanna stay? Keep ordering food and beverages.
Just my take.
As such, Borders' inability to "fall back" on its mail order division and its inability to sell its own branded name of e-book readers will result in that company either being dissolved or bought out by a rival like Barnes & Noble.
“The only difference is technology. I no longer have to kill a tree and destroy its ability to scrub harmful CO2 from the atmosphere, which is the reason why its -10 today. “
Lib troll...
These restaurants and cafes first accommodated PDAs with their free Wi-Fi. Now, it appears that people are squatting in the restaurants, thus limiting the turnover to more paying customers. That might be the problem but it’s the short-sighted hospitality business that invited it.
“Lib troll...”
Not quite. I should have put the /s tag after that.
My bad.
Those are my feelings. All these people getting upset because they can't loiter in a cafe for hours after buying a $2.00 coffee? I don't frequent these places so maybe I'm off base but it seems to me the coffeeshop is there to sell coffee and a tad of ambiance - not to serve as a home away from home. Borders lets you sip a coffee and read a free book - and they're losing their shirts.
To me, a Kindle, etc is a time killer to use on a long journey, waiting at the Drs. office or an airport and not to use in tying up a money-generating space for hours.
:o)
It's still not rocket surgery.
“But if I were to bring in a book and spend an hour or so reading it, it would be okay?
What’s the difference?”
With a Kindle it’s not just an hour, it can be all day.
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