{"id":2339,"date":"2010-03-10T10:50:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T17:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/03\/bookhampton-amagansett-gone\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T10:50:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T17:50:55","slug":"bookhampton-amagansett-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/10\/bookhampton-amagansett-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"BookHampton Amagansett Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sagharboronline.com\/sagharborexpress\/page-1\/bookhampton-closes-amagansett-store-6854\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Sag Harbor Express<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>BookHampton Closes Amagansett Store<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sagharboronline.com\/sagharborexpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/web-Bookhampton3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sagharboronline.com\/sagharborexpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/web-Bookhampton3.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6855\" title=\"web Bookhampton3\" alt=\"web Bookhampton3\" height=\"319\" width=\"504\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After two years of business in Amagansett Square, BookHampton may have closed its Amagansett location, but its Sag Harbor store, pictured here with manager Sarah Doherty and Barry Lisee, is still going strong. Hampton owner Charline Spektor this week announced the independent bookstore would close the location, citing economics and \u201cthe surprising lack of foot-traffic in Amagansett.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEast Hampton is a thriving store and they were too close together,\u201d Spektor said on Tuesday. She added in addition to the East Hampton branch of BookHampton, both the Sag Harbor and Southampton locations continue to operate successfully.<\/p>\n<p>BookHampton at Amagansett Square was originally conceived as a store to focus on children, keeping in character with Amagansett\u2019s family-centric community, although the location maintained a collection of other genres of literature as well as DVDs, merchandise and CDs. Spektor said on Tuesday all three remaining BookHampton locations, in particular Sag Harbor, continue to operate with full children\u2019s sections.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/sagharboronline.com\/sagharborexpress\/page-1\/bookhampton-closes-amagansett-store-6854\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at SagHarborOnline.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Sag Harbor Express BookHampton Closes Amagansett Store After two years of business in Amagansett Square, BookHampton may have closed its Amagansett location, but its Sag Harbor store, pictured here with manager Sarah Doherty and Barry Lisee, is still going strong. Hampton owner Charline Spektor this week announced the independent bookstore would close the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,14,20,49,51],"class_list":["post-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news","tag-amagansett","tag-bookhampton","tag-east-hampton","tag-sag-harbor","tag-southampton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}