Indie booksellers dying out -Chicago Tribune


	Indie booksellers dying out -Chicago Tribune

readforpleasure

7-3-2007 8:12 PM

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books, sales, independent, publishing

readforpleasure says:

Andre Schiffrin is the founder of the nonprofit publisher The New Press.

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