If they/you are interested, here's the FAQ for affiliating with bookshop.org:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f9pPM60azosW7_fBCi5yHPaslQC8ShiV__uuKgVG-MI/edit?usp=sharing
On 4/19/23 14:25, Steve Smith wrote:
We got the word that Peggy Frank found someone to carry Book Mountain
forward...
We got the word that Peggy Frank found someone to carry Book Mountain
forward... a couple already working in the bookstores of Santa Fe for
years... Lauren Ayles? and Phil Geronimo... also poets/writers.
Even though they are nominally a "paperback exchange", their inventory
has grown to in
Seems I missed a trick (or two) again... Peggy apparently started
looking to be bought-out/partnered over 6 months ago and it is only now
(after an acute health challenge?) that she seems to be on a mission to
sell or shutter in short order.
I'm futzing around with examples of people who have
FWIW
Searching this US worker-coop directory yielded 10 examples of coop
bookstores and bookstores registered as "democratic workplaces" which I
do not yet know the definition of:
https://www.usworker.coop/directory/
Orca in Olympia is not listed which gives me the feeling that there may
Excellent! This is the kind of feedback I was fishing for. I am
reading some of Orca's materials on their CoOpness and can imagine that
it is a hard thing to pull together without one or a very few strong
personalities with the motivation to move it along crisply. That is
definitely not me
FWIW, if there were a lot of people interested in helping out a little
bit, consider setting up a co-op. This store here in Oly did that soon
after we moved up here. It was difficult because they transitioned,
rather that constructed from scratch.
https://www.orcabooks.com/co-op
And I don't s
I was just in Book Mountain which has been operating in SFe primarily as
a paperback exchange since 1980 (just before I moved to the area) and
discovered that the owner, Peggy Frank intends to shut down, probably
sooner rather than later. Here is an article about her move and
rejuvenation of t
