The independent bookstore boom continues.
This image released by White Rose Books & More shows bookstore owners Tania Galianes, left, and Erin Decker outside their shop in Kissimmee, Fla. on Nov. 4, 2023. – Three years ago, Erin Decker was a middle school librarian in Kissimmee, Florida, increasingly frustrated by the state'sSo, she and fellow librarian Tania Galiñanes thought of a way to fight back.
Recent members include everyone from the romance-oriented That's What She Read in Mount Ayr, Iowa; to Seven Stories in Shawnee, Kansas, managed by 15-year-old Halley Vincent; to more than 20 Black-owned shops.Octavia Butler Most of the new businesses are traditional “brick and mortar” retailers. But a “bookstore” can also mean a “pop-up” business like Loc'd & Lit, which has a mission to bring “the joy of reading to the Bronx,” the New York City borough that had been viewed by the industry as a “desert” for its scarcity of bookstores. Other new stores are online only, among them the Be More Literature Children's Bookshop and the used books seller Liberation Is Lit.
Just opening a store requires initiative and a willingness to take risks. Decker says that she and Galiñanes had to use retirement money because lenders wouldn't provide credit until they were actually in business. The owner of Octavia's Bookshelf, Nikki High, is a former communications director for Trader Joe's who relied on crowdfunding and her own savings to get her store started.
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