There was a great article in the Boston Globe on Thursday titled “Unchained Success”, featuring independent booksellers in the Boston area defying the odds and beating their larger competitors. We have a copy taped to the wall at the store for inspiration, and I must say us Bookworkers have been buoyed by the encouraging message, especially since the Globe considered the matter to be colorful, front-page-worthy news!
In a nice twist on the digital age, it was my parents on the Cape who tipped me off about the article (my father heads out every morning to go buy the papers at a little shop in Pocasset). I broke the news to my friends on Twitter and felt like a hero… and when my brother in NYC sent a link via email later in the day I had to tell him that he’d been scooped by an ink and tree-based daily. His facetious response? “What’s ‘paper‘?!?” I told him I would check with our parents and get back to him. : )
-Wendy H.
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