I love this quote about what it means to be a bookseller
June 3, 2011 at 1:54 pm 2 comments
“Bookselling was and is for me a cultural and political expression, an expression of progressive change, of a challenge to oppressive authority, of a search for a community of values which can act as an underpinning of a better world. The true profit in bookselling is the social profit; the bottom line, the measure of the impact of the bookshop on the community.”–A. David Schwartz (1938-2004)
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Entry filed under: Industry Views. Tags: book stores, bookselling, bookshops.
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Jon Page | June 3, 2011 at 2:03 pm
A different kind of quote
Seen recently on a shuttered Borders
“Dear customers….sorry public toilet closed….try Amazon”
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Michelle | June 3, 2011 at 4:49 pm
Good quote. The power of books and literature and those who sell them to enable social change.
It reminds me of another quote I read yesterday, on an apron of all things, as I was walking past a shop. It’s more individualistic than social, but it’s pushing the importance of books…
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius Cicero