Radiozine on 09/23/11

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Fri, 09/23/2011 - 11:00am to 11:40am
Andrew Laties, author of "Rebel Bookseller" on the importance of independent booksellers

The guest is Andrew Laties, author of "Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Businesses Represent Everything You Want To Fight for, from Free Speech To Buying Local To Building Communities." He talks about why he believes independent bookselling has a great future. He analyzes the growth of the chains and online bookselling. And he encourages those considering opening up a bookstore.

Andy Laties has launched five bookselling companies in the past thirty years. In 1987 he won the Women's National Book Association's Pannell Award for his innovative community outreach work at The Children's Bookstore in Chicago. After ten years as an American Booksellers Association School instructor, Andy wrote Rebel Bookseller: How To Improvise Your Own Indie Store And Beat Back The Chains, published by Vox Pop, which won the 2006 Independent Publisher Award for best book about writing and publishing; a revised and expanded edition is due out in July 2011 from Seven Stories Press. Andy holds a Masters degree from the School of Community Economic Development at Southern New Hampshire University. He co-founded and still manages the museum shop at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts, which Parents Choice called "the very best bookstore for picture books in the entire world."

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