A review by librar_bee
How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling by Danny Caine

adventurous hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

5 stars. Thoughtful, personal, and adventurous, Caine's odyssey to 12 unique bookstores is vivid and enchanting. Each conversation brings new insight to the history and ongoing struggles of bookstores and their ever-increasing importance to community organizing.

Caine provides well-researched, feasible action steps that go beyond book-buying in each chapter. His commentary on commerce versus capitalism, and the steps that these bookstores are taking to mitigate the longer-term consequences of capitalism, is hopeful and encouraging for those longing to find tangible steps to take in creating a better world.