HeyJaredTales of Brave Bookstore
Notes from a bookseller/writer. Creativity and commerce, publishing and human nature, recommendations and regrets, trouble and desire.
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Entertainment for the People (opens the original)
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Monday night, during a slow stretch at the bookstore, I read some negative commentary of Theo of Golden for fun, and agreed with their assessments. What is there to say about American society at this moment in time when the bestselling novel in the country adds up to I want an old white man to tell me how to live? A turgid Christian novel full of clichés. And of course, the writing is bad, but what does it even mean anymore to write badly? Maybe I write badly in the eyes of millions of Americans
Bookselling Roundup! (opens the original)
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GOODWILLI try not to write about Bad Customer Behavior, but sometimes, patterns emerge.We often get people asking if we buy used books or accept donations of used books. We do not. We are purely a new book bookstore. I am met with two responses to the question, “do you accept used books?”Example #1:Customer: Hi, do you buy used books?Bookseller: No, we do not.Customer: Okay thank you. OR Customer: Okay, can you tell me who in town (other than Powell&#
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