{"id":864,"date":"2007-03-13T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=864"},"modified":"2007-03-13T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T17:43:00","slug":"books-a-million-rumored-to-be-coming-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/13\/books-a-million-rumored-to-be-coming-downtown\/","title":{"rendered":"Books-A-Million rumored to be coming downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend I received a rumor, which I was told came from a fairly reliable media source, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksamillion.com\/ncom\/books?redirect=1\">Books-A-Million<\/a> may take over the space in Peabody Place Mall formerly occupied by Tower Records.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently no Memphis Books-A-Million stores (there&#8217;s one in Southaven) but I&#8217;ve been to the Little Rock location before.  They typically have racks and racks of closeout books at deep discounts, and they also carry the current bestsellers.  I&#8217;ve never known Books-A-Million to have in-store cafes in their locations, which is something I&#8217;d really like to see&#8230; but then again, with Starbucks right upstairs, an in-store cafe might be redundant at Peabody Place.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this one is actually true&#8230; I&#8217;ve said for years that one of the key things downtown is missing is a large-scale book retailer that is open evenings and weekends.  This is one of the remaining pieces of the puzzle involved in turning downtown into a real neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend I received a rumor, which I was told came from a fairly reliable media source, that Books-A-Million may take over the space in Peabody Place Mall formerly occupied by Tower Records. There are currently no Memphis Books-A-Million stores (there&#8217;s one in Southaven) but I&#8217;ve been to the Little Rock location before. They &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/13\/books-a-million-rumored-to-be-coming-downtown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Books-A-Million rumored to be coming downtown&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->