1. You know who I think needs to get the EBM? Coffee shops.
2. What is going to save the independent bookstore? Quite possibly an archaic business model in which booksellers are printers.
3. Do I still value the independent bookstore? Kinda. Not as much as I did five or ten years ago. Shockingly, with age comes disillusionment.
4. Is there hope? Eh, probably. The future isn’t all bad.
5. Technicalities, however, are becoming more and more important – while the specificity of language we’re using gets blurrier and blurrier. I suppose that’s a jargon problem, along with a lack of respect for the layman.
6. Why is craft still, still a dirty word in some circles? (Why are people still beating the dead horse of art vs. craft, as though they’re somehow mutually exclusive? Or is that just me?)
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