Gary Goodman
Auteur de The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade
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This story is an excellent caution to anyone who’s ever dreamt of selling books for a living, especially used ones (Note to self: do not even think about it.) Bookselling is not for the faint to heart and those without obsessive determination. And then even the heyday has come and past.
From the epilogue:
“If the story has a villain, it is the internet. When the internet was small, booksellers fed it all their secrets. When it got big, it ate them up. This once human business is now dominated by the machines that have made it impossible for traditional secondhand stores to survive.”… (plus d'informations)