Heidi N. Moore Wonders Would A Bigger Barnes & Noble Kill Independent Bookstores? Deal Journal caught up with Carla Cohen, the proprietor of one of the nation’s best-known independent bookstores: Politics & Prose, in Washington D.C.
You have to be willing not to be rich. A lot of people want to be rich. People who have the skills to operate a business don’t want to operate a small business, and people who are interested in books don’t see themselves as businesspeople. Combining business and books is really difficult. We’re not ever going to have stock options for ourselves, and we make a fairly modest amount of money compared to what a lot of people want to make. You do it because you love it.
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