Cover image from Parasitic Ventures Press. I believe this art book is exactly what it claims.
As a follow-up to my recent post about surviving independent bookstores, I thought I'd link this article I just read in the Wall Street Journal about how some of them are trying to do it: community investment.
What do you think? Would you buy/donate a share?
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Who's Buying the Bookstore?
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I don't know whether I'd invest...it depends on a great many things. I've seen bookshops that are run by people who should *never* run a business, no matter how much they like books. I certainly wouldn't invest in one of those. If I had the kind of money they're talking about in that article, I'd rather sit down with the owner first, decide what new direction the bookstore could take to make it self-supporting (if not profitable), then invest. Anything else is just throwing money away.
I'd like to offer my services to a local bookstore if it would in any way help them stay open.
I could shelve books, get acquainted with one section of the store at a time so as to help customers find THE book, do an inventory, write promotional leaflets, that kind of thing. Problem is, I'm only a temporary resident of any one place.
Hmmm. Surely there's something I can do to help.
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