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Bookselling
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Okay, so I know I’m not the last bookseller. People still sell books. But I’m one of the last of a certain kind of bookseller. The kind that for six hundred years rooted around basements, book bins, and bookstores looking for, sometimes, rare books or, more often, secondhand books. They were the hunter-gatherers of the book business, the travelers and pick-ers, who spent their lives saving books that might otherwise have been lost. They are, now, nearly extinct, driven to ground by the machines—
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― The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade
― The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade
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Every day, we pay lip service to democratic values and then again and again make undemocratic choices in the marketplace. Bestsellers are bestsellers because we buy them: nothing more.
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― Why We Read What We Read: A Delightfully Opinionated Journey Through Bestselling Books
― Why We Read What We Read: A Delightfully Opinionated Journey Through Bestselling Books
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