Saturday, March 21, 2015

The Bookstore: the City's 'Imagination, Conscience and Spirit'

Shelf Awareness

"The bookshop has always been at the heart of the modern city; it is its imagination, its conscience and spirit. From their first incarnation as printers of pamphlets, they were always where people would go to explore ideas, find stories and share opinions."

--Dan Lewis, a bookseller at Stanfords, an independent travel bookstore in London, quoted in a Guardian article about the pressures on indie bookstores.

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