Ann Arbor makes room for indie bookstores
Blink and you won't miss them: indie bookstores are here to stay in Ann Arbor. Excerpt: "Don't look now, but a small literary renaissance is sweeping Ann Arbor. In the midst of a nationwide bookstore die-off, by summer's end this famously academic city will have two new independent bookstores, each started by an idealistic young married couple…. Indeed, statistics from the American Booksellers Association, which represents independent bookstores, defy the gloomy prognosis. In 2009, the ABA had 1,401 member businesses. Today it has 1,632. The number has grown every year for the past four, but significantly, jumped the most between 2011 and 2012 — the year that Borders vanished." More here.
Blink and you won’t miss them: indie bookstores are here to stay in Ann Arbor.
Excerpt:
“Don’t look now, but a small literary renaissance is sweeping Ann Arbor. In the midst of a nationwide bookstore die-off, by summer’s end this famously academic city will have two new independent bookstores, each started by an idealistic young married couple….
Indeed, statistics from the American Booksellers Association, which represents independent bookstores, defy the gloomy prognosis. In 2009, the ABA had 1,401 member businesses. Today it has 1,632. The number has grown every year for the past four, but significantly, jumped the most between 2011 and 2012 — the year that Borders vanished.”
More here.
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