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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.
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.