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Why Bookstores Are Booming Again

BOOK RIOT·S. Zainab Williams·about 1 month ago
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. As attraction to a more analog lifestyle grows , literary chic stomps the runway and the streets, and bookish social media continues to dominate , it may come as no surprise that bookstores are seeing better days. Bookshop.org founder and CEO Andy Hunter sat down with Fast Company to talk about Independent Bookstore Day and the success of indie bookstores, in spite of Amazon: “People are really galvanizing around bookstores as a force for good in our culture,” he says. “You see that in the fact that there are about 70% more bookstores now than there were six years ago in the United States.…

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