Friday, February 9, 2007

Northeast Triangle Tour

Fantasizing about a shuttlebus that works the cities of the Megalopolis. (Bibliomegalopolis? Megabibliopolis?) Boston/NYC/Philly/D.C.

Then: each such hub has smaller-town spokes, which themselves triangulate.

So -- a Boston/NYC shuttle has extra vertices at Northshire Bookstore in Manchester Center, Vermont, and also in Amherst/Northampton, MA (which has multiple indies).

You can take off from New York for a restful day at Northshire, in rural Vermont, in the morning, and in the evening you move on to Harvard Bookstore, in Cambridge. Or -- stay overnight in Vermont, and...any direction you please the next day.

People could pick and choose, create their own routes...with all the transport hours somehow involving literary themes (bookclub discussions and poetry readings en route, etc.).

This will work if there are enough reader/riders to justify frequent shuttlebuses and limos (I want to do twice daily at least, to/from all major bookstore participants).

I think there will be enough such customers, if I can come up a really innovative P.R. campaign. It's all about the STORY.

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