[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'212745\' date=\'Apr 11 2009, 04:49 PM\']
I hate to sound snarky here (it isn't my intent in this case)...but you've obviously never seen Bookends in my birthplace of Ridgewood, New Jersey.[/quote]
Hence, his use of "very few" instead of "none." A large number of our local signings happen at Elliott Bay Book Company, too. (I can also think of Book Passage in Corte Madera, CA, and I GOTTA think stuff happens at Powell's in Portland.) I'm sure there are a fair number of exceptions, and I'm also sure they are way outnumbered by the national chains.