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I recently contributed an article entitled Occupy Manhattan Storefronts to New York public TV station WNET’s online magazine, Metro Focus. The indie business situation in New York is changing rapidly, and a new report from Center for an Urban Future reveals that the tide is actually turning in our [...]
Bookstore Pop-ups, Hybrids, and Rebels: Why Indie booksellers are leading the movement to support and foster local businesses — A panel discussion with maverick booksellers David Kipen, Andrew Laties, and Josh Spencer on why there is no better time to be in the book business.
….This fun hour-long September 11, 2011 event at Skylight Books [...]
I met AK Press and PM Press co-founder Ramsey Kanaan when he stopped by the Vox Pop booth at the 2005 BEA convention and said he’d read the advance review copy of Rebel Bookseller while riding his exercycle. A few weeks later he wrote a fabulous book review on the AK [...]
Back in 2006, TV producer Skye Van Raalte-Herzog created this video interview with me on a pro bono basis, because she believed in the message of Rebel Bookseller. Thanks, Skye!
The Bookish Rebel
From Publishers Weekly, March 25, 2011:
"In another filing yesterday, Borders submitted a motion to return pre-petition merchandise for post-petition credit. In it, Borders notes that as their financial difficulties increased, vendors refused to accept trade credit or returns. The retailer, which pre-bankruptcy returned 31% of its merchandise annually for credit, has attempted [...]
We were knee-deep in planning our own independent bookstore. It would be a community gathering-place, a center of literary life, a crazy dream we’d make real. But in a Boston hotel conference room, after the first day of the 1984 American Booksellers Association’s school—a day spent sharing plans and fantasies [...]
1) Last year Barnes & Noble superstores sharply reduced book inventories and ramped up sidelines.
2) A few weeks ago Len Riggio of B&N complained that if publishers offer Borders extended terms in order to help stave off a Borders bankruptcy, Barnes & Noble should get these special terms too.
3) Today, Barnes & Noble [...]
Many years ago, when Len Riggio and Barnes & Noble used $275 million of Michael Milken’s junk bonds and bought B. Dalton’s 779 stores, which controlled one billion dollars of bookstore market share, Riggio promised the publishing industry that he’d maintain the B. Dalton company as a separate operating entity from the Barnes & Noble [...]
More jolly tales from the saga of Vox Pop! Enjoy. –Andy Laties
Chapter 4
When he released me from his embrace, Shelly Drobny reached into the air, strained upwards with his fingers, grasped something invisible, and shouted, “You’ve got the brass ring!”
The plan was a million dollars to begin with; more when we’d launched [...]
Here is another chapter of Vox Pop stories.
Vox Pop, Sander, and Me — Chapter 2
Mid-sentence the photographer across the street entered my awareness. How long had he been standing there? Sunglasses, khaki jacket, muscular, bulky camera, snapping photos of me? Me and Holley, rather, chatting about our big plans.
The Vox Pop lease [...]
Released July 19, 2011, the Second Edition of Rebel Bookseller!!
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