Renowned bookseller Andrew Laties offers a radical and creative new paradigm for independent booksellers on all sides of the cash register, written to inspire a revival of community bookselling. In his 20 years of revolutionary retail, Latie's ideas were adapted by Barnes &amp; Noble, Zany Brainy and scores of independents. Rebel Bookseller challenges today's bookstore workers to improvise the wildly imaginative indie bookstores of tomorrow, and includes a behind-the-scenes history of the book industry, humorous anecdotes and bittersweet lessons, ten interlacing Rants, and three Rough Rules of Rebel Bookselling Blending adventurous memoir, satire and sharp-tongued jibe, the author dares the chains to sell this revolutionary book.

Rebel Bookseller: How to Improvise Your Own Indie Store and Beat Back the Chains

Business & Money

Laties, Andrew

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Drench Kiss Media Corp

This celebration of Samuel Laties braids his visionary and humorous fiction, poetry, and essays together with Andrew Laties' reminiscences-along with the tale of Andy's struggle to invest Sam's death with meaning by rescuing a legendary bookstore. In counterpoint, son and father explore the transcendent power of imagination.

Son of Rebel Bookseller: A Very Large Homework Assignment

Laties, Samuel

Parenting & Relationships

Mythoprint Publishing

The revival of independent bookselling has already begun and is one of the amazing stories of our times. Bookseller Andy Laties wrote the first edition of Rebel Bookseller six years ago, hoping it would spark a movement. Now, with this second edition, Laties’s book can be a rallying cry for everyone who wants to better understand how the rise of the big bookstore chains led irrevocably to their decline, and how even in the face of electronic readers from three of America’s largest and most successful companies—Apple, Amazon, and Google—the movement to support locally owned independent stores, especially bookstores, is on the rise. From the mid-1980s to the present, Andy Laties has been an independent bookseller, starting out in Chicago, teaching along the way at the American Booksellers Association, and finally running the bookshop at the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts. His innovations were adapted by Barnes &amp; Noble, Zany Brainy, and scores of independent stores. In Rebel Bookseller, Laties tells how he got started, how he kept going, and why he believes independent bookselling has a great future. He alternates his narrative with short anecdotes, interludes between the chapters that give his credo as a bookseller. Along the way, he explains the growth of the chains, and throws in a treasure trove of tips for anyone who is considering opening up a bookstore. Rebel Bookseller is a must read for those in the book biz, a testament to the ingeniousness of one man man’s story of making a life out of his passionate commitment to books and bookselling.

Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Bookstores Represent Everything You Want to Fight for from Free Speechto Buying Local to Building Communities

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Seven Stories Press

Defying police intimidation, Andrew Laties testified he'd seen a Black man murdered by cops. They went to prison. Why was this white Yale dropout on the South Side? Studying Great Black Music with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Tracing Laties' childhood love of music and long-haired protest against the Vietnam War, suspension for a newspaper and election to the school board, and travels in Asia and Europe studying music and seeing American militarism and racism through the world's eyes, The Music Thief reveals direct action as a means of improvising a life of impact. Keywords: Questioning authority, arts activism, police brutality, children's rights, cultural appropriation, race and class, US militarism.

The Music Thief

Professionals & Academics

You're Telling My Kids They Can't Read This Book?: Our Hundred-Year Children's-Literature Revolution and How We'll Keep Fighting to Support Our Families' Right to Read

Teen & Young Adult

Rebel Bookseller

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