‘Lots of People Buy Books in the Airport Every Day’
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 07.06.10 | 1:41 PM ET
The Book Bench goes bookspotting at O’Hare, and comes back with a slideshow of travelers and their airport reads.
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 07.06.10 | 1:41 PM ET
The Book Bench goes bookspotting at O’Hare, and comes back with a slideshow of travelers and their airport reads.
Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.
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Sophia Dembling 07.22.10 | 10:47 AM ET
“She said that her customers prefer fiction and non-fiction to pulpy genre stuff, but perhaps more importantly, that lots of people buy books in the airport every day.”
So why is it airport newsstands carry so much genre stuff? And the other books are often hardcover…I hate it when I have to resort to buying a book in the airport.