Read Local.
A number of innovative publishers are trying to end the book industry's over-reliance on the December holiday season—a six-week window of intensified shopping that carries particular urgency in the middle of a recession. Some publishers and booksellers have adapted ideas from the sustainable food m...
| Published in: | American Prospect Vol. 20; no. 10; pp. 43 - 47 |
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American Prospect
December 2009
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