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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So interesting. Independent bookstores [b]seem[/b] to be flourishing in DC. We have a great [b]new[/b] one on the Hill and apparently one is opening on H Street soon. [/quote]

"Seem" and "new" would be the operative words here.  Politics and Prose and Kramers are of the few that have endured.  Borders (although not independent), Olsens, Books a Million...bit the dust.

I doubt this is about rent.  B&N closed it's DC stores already:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/10/09/d-c-barnes-noble-closing-leaving-no-more-big-bookstores-in-the-city/?utm_term=.f8528c325cd5

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When two of your three examples of dying independent bookstores are actually chains, you kind of lose the argument. Olsens I've never heard of. [/quote]

Are you new here?  Olsson's was a DC institution for about 30 years.  They closed in 2008. [/quote]

Sort of. I moved here in 2003. But I've spent a fortune at Kramerbooks and now at East City Book Shop![/quote]

Olsson's had stores in Georgetown, Dupont, Bethesda, Courthouse, Old Town, and one in Penn Quarter that held no small part in the revitalization of that area.  The landlords raised the rent and the space stood empty for YEARS.  Finally China Chilcano moved in, which would make sense, given that Jaleo is right next door.[/quote]

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