{"id":729,"date":"2009-10-19T09:27:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T16:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rickyopaterny.com\/blog\/?p=729"},"modified":"2009-10-19T09:32:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T16:32:34","slug":"the-most-popular-independent-bookstores-in-america-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/19\/the-most-popular-independent-bookstores-in-america-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"The most popular independent bookstores in America (on Twitter)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NFI Research has compiled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfiresearch.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=305&amp;Itemid=119\">a list<\/a> of the independent bookstores with the most Twitter followers. Powell&#8217;s of Portland comes in first, by far, with 9,880 followers as of October 13, 2009. New York stores dominate the list, and only one Bay Area store, Booksmith, even makes an appearance on it. This is a sharp reversal of the state of things earlier this decade when notable stores, such as Coliseum and Gotham, were closing in New York, while Cody&#8217;s and <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bookpassage.com\" title=\"Book Passage\" rel=\"blog\">Book Passage<\/a> were expanding in San Francisco. A revival of indie bookstores has taken place in New York over the past couple years with successful openings of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idlewildbooks.com\/\">Idlewild,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abookstoreinbrooklyn.blogspot.com\/\">Greenlight,<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wordbrooklyn.wordpress.com\/\">Word,<\/a> among others. <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/ba9a553b-04b1-4c0d-99c5-c365252ff3ba\/\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none ; float: right;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=ba9a553b-04b1-4c0d-99c5-c365252ff3ba\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"\/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFI Research has compiled a list of the independent bookstores with the most Twitter followers. Powell&#8217;s of Portland comes in first, by far, with 9,880 followers as of October 13, 2009. New York stores dominate the list, and only one Bay Area store, Booksmith, even makes an appearance on it. This is a sharp reversal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,5,4],"tags":[138,239,67,140,141,121,139,137],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}