Text Message from Los Angeles: One hundred new independent bookstores opened in America last year

A Very Defiant Duckling Named Ender who sent over Text Message from Los Angeles: On the demented, celebrity-crazed, surrender-happy, endlessly-on-the-verge-of-being-wiped-off-the-planet publishing industry. (Note to panicked book lovers: Everything is going to be okay.) “One hundred new independent bookstores opened in America last year. One speaker describes “recolonizing the parts of America that chain stores had left barren.” This is, by any measure, a big deal. A few years ago, the talk from ABA was that, for the first time in years, as many independent bookstores in America had opened as closed. After hundreds of great bookstores had already been lost, that had seemed like a milestone.”

June 20, 2008 by Uncategorized 0

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