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Indigo Books Music & Cafe
Category: Shopping Books, Mags, Music and Video Bookstores Bookstores [Edit]
1025 Marine DriveNorth Vancouver, BC V7P 1S6
(604) 988-6681
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- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
2 reviews for Indigo Books Music & Cafe
2 reviews in English
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Review from Mike G.
3/3/2012 1 Check-in Here
If you are looking to purchase a book and you do not want to take the chance that a smaller store does not have the title you are looking for this is the place for you. This store is pretty darn big with a very impressive selection of books for you to choose from. They have everything from your standard horror to hiking to biographies.
Some people like using digital readers for their books but I am not one of them. I would rather take a walk to the store pick up a novel and flip the pages. This store gives me the opportunity to take that simple pleasure of holding my book in my hands and flipping the pages. -
Review from Christine R.
New Westminster, BC
11/27/2008
Indigo is part of the whole Chapters/Coles empire, so they have pretty much the same selection as any other chain store you're going to find in this town. That is to say, everything is bland and safe and sanctioned by the powers-that-be that run the place back East, and the locally published and indie books are almost stocked by accident. But hey, if you're after the latest bestseller written up in the Globe and Mail or the newest Oprah-approved title, they'll have it in bulk, maybe even at a discount.
What really irks me about this particular store is how when you're coming down the escalator to the cash desk on the main floor, they've designed it so you have to walk past all the gifty crap and cards in order to get to the cashier, or out of the store. It's such a naked attempt at getting my impulse dollar, such a calculated attempt at mercenary merchandising, it just makes me sick. It's so ... obvious.
Come to think of it, the downtown Chapters store does that as well. I refuse to buy their overpriced scented candles or pocket Japanese rock gardens or what have you, simply because they're in my way. Stupid corporate bookstore marketing.
It's a good bookstore in which to kill time, but those last impressions can really kill you.
