The Bookshop

by Evan Friss
Category: "Literature/Essays"
Pages:312
Year of Publication:2024
Date Added:01/18/2025
Date Read:02/23/2025
Notes:Subtitle: A History of the American Bookstore

Beginning with Benjamin Franklin's printshop/bookstore, through independent stores, chain stores, to Amazon, a history of bookstores in America.
My Rating: 5

Reviews for The Bookshop

Review - Bookshop, The

Mildly interesting for the first half, although it could have been a magazine article, but most of the second half was about woke stores of one sort or another. It was also heavily New York focused. I skipped through several chapters and skipped others entirely.
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