Sep 14, 2019
The “Buy Local” movement and a desire for an inclusive community atmosphere have helped fuel the resurgence of independent bookstores.
How do local bookstores and booksellers keep afloat with the competitive marketplace of big box stores, the automation of online services, and the influx of e-books? Why do authors seek out local bookshops- these bastions of literary communities- to pitch their wares?
Susan Boyer, South Carolina's own USA TODAY bestselling novelist, and Jill Hendrix, owner of Fiction Addiction and past president of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, join us to talk about these questions.
For the first time, we take our conversation to someone else's table. We traveled off location from our studio to record from Fiction Addiction in Greenville, South Carolina.