Securing a Bold Future for America’s Oldest Independent Bookstore

A bookstore, of all businesses, is a kind of unicorn in this age of eReaders and Amazon. Around 70% of the books in the country are now bought and sold through Amazon. If you are reading here, you probably know that Amazon’s specific business strategy is that books are its loss leader–Amazon undercharges and loses hundreds of thousands of dollars on books each year because…it can! It profits on everything else, and books are nothing more than devalued commodities.

At our bookstore, books are not just commodities: they are ideas, culture, free exchanges of speech, stories, history. Books are friends. And you are the friends this bookstore relies upon to keep us going far into the future. We are asking for your support. Please consider joining us in our drive to ensure a bold future for this old beauty of a bookstore!