The current crisis around LGBTQ bookstores is not a conflict between print books and digital books. Digital books are here to stay and are going to learn to coexist with print books. Consequently, a bookstore will offer a maximum number of titles of books of interest to LGBTQ persons in a maximum number of formats for use in the maximum number of devices and formats. In this way, the distinction … [Read more...]
The death of our bookstore (2)
Most of us are complicit in the failure of bookstores. The bookstores themselves didn’t modernize. We wanted our coffee, and they didn’t serve coffee. They weren’t in the right location. The books themselves became less interesting. Shorter, less deep, less adventuresome, less important. The publishers didn’t want to publish anything controversial. They became more interested in selling fewer … [Read more...]