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Rebel Bookseller How to Improvise Your Own Indie Store & Beat Back the Chains
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"How the author improvised his own indie store and beat back the chains" would have been a more accurate subtitle for this book. It's a good book, don't get me wrong, but I was expecting something more how-to, DIY. Instead, what we have here is a detailed biographical account of how Andrew Laties managed to take an indie book store and innovate numerous wonderful promotional and management ideas to keep it going despite the spreading plague of chains. Amid the anecdotes, he adds in crucial and often maddening information about the realities of the publishing industries and its flaws. It's heartening to see someone who beat the system for so long. That being said, there's really not much here for brainstorming. There's a lot about what the author did, but if you're looking for a book of ideas to try, this isn't it. I see it more as an inspirational text, a rallying cry. It's good; just don't listen to the subtitle as it is.
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