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Rebel Bookseller
  • Published: 15 July 2011
  • ISBN: 9781609801397
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99

Rebel Bookseller

Why Indie Bookstores Represent Everything You Want to Fight for from Free Speechto Buying Local to Building Communities

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19 July 2011
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15 July 2011
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We hope this book will act as a rallying flag for independent booksellers and their supporters--including other independent arts retailers, mom-and-pop shops in other fields and industries, and those who battle the big-box stores.

With an Introduction by Edward Morrow
Afterword by Bill Ayers

Andy Laties has launched five bookselling companies in the past thirty years. In 1987, he won the Women's National Book Association's Pannell Award for his innovative community outreach work at The Children's Bookstore in Chicago. After ten years as an American Booksellers Association School instructor, Andy wrote Rebel Bookseller: How To Improvise Your Own Indie Store And Beat Back The Chains, published by Vox Pop, which won the 2006 Independent Publisher Award for best book about writing and publishing.

In Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Businesses Represent Everything You Want to Fight for—From Free Speech to Buying Local to Building Communities, Andrew Laties tells how he got started, how he kept going, and why he believes independent bookselling has a great future. He alternates his narrative with short anecdotes, interludes between the chapters that give his credo as a bookseller. Along the way, he explains the growth of the chains, and throws in a treasure trove of tips for anyone who is considering opening up a bookstore.

Rebel Bookseller is a must-read for those in the book biz, a testament to the ingeniousness of one man's story of making a life out of his passionate commitment to books and bookselling.
  • Published: 15 July 2011
  • ISBN: 9781609801397
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99
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Praise for Rebel Bookseller

"A must-read." --Publishers Weekly (starred review of first edition)
"Everything you always wanted to know about the book business but were afraid to ask." --Eric Carle, author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar
"Andy has put so much passion into his book that it is impossible to read before bed: the book incites a disturbing concoction of adrenalin and hormones that rages against that good night. Not only does Andy not go gently there, he refuses to go, period. This book is heartfelt and honest." --Bernie Rath, former executive director, American Booksellers Association