Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Bookstores Represent Everything You Want to Fight for from Free Speech to Buying Local to Building Communities
by:
Andrew Laties (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299576575 (1299576575)
Publish date: January 1st 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Edition language: English
There are three things going on in this book.1) There's Andy Laties' memoir of his education and experience in the book selling biz, which is entertainingly told but not of any independent interest (I would never have heard of him without this book). Seems like a nice guy, if a bit hyper.2) There's ...
I think I should add "Rebel Bookseller" to my business cards. I'm more serious that you might think. It's long been a philosophy of mine that a book being on a bestseller list is a mark against my reading it. Not because of some "I'm better than the masses" snobbery, but simply because it doesn't ne...
Number five book for 2011I loved this book!! I have been a bookseller for 22+ years and it is not just a job to me, it is my career! I remember when Big&Nasty came to our town & killed our wonderful indie store. People had no idea what they had lost until it was gone. I remember when I worked fo...
Number five book for 2011I loved this book!! I have been a bookseller for 22+ years and it is not just a job to me, it is my career! I remember when Big&Nasty came to our town & killed our wonderful indie store. People had no idea what they had lost until it was gone. I remember when I worked fo...
13 years ago
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