On episode 14 of the WRITER 2.0 Podcast I speak with Robert Sindelar, managing partner of one of the great bookstores in the country—Third Place Books.
In the interview we discuss:
- what kinds of books the Internet has made obsolete;
- how the bookstore/publisher relationship has changed since the demise of Borders;
- how bookstores decide which books to put in their stores;
- whether the ebook market has leveled off;
- best practices for independent authors who want their books in stores;
- why Paul McCarty chose Third Place Books for a reading and signing.
Plus, on Today in Writing: the first appearance of color printing in a U.S. newspaper.
About our Guest:
Robert Sindelar is the Managing Partner at Third Place Books. He is interested in literature in translation, drama and theater, and discussing the place books, reading, and bookstores occupy in our lives.
Third Place Books is the deliberate and intentional creation of a community around books and the ideas inside them. Founded in 1998 in Lake Forest Park and in the Ravenna neighborhood of Seattle in 2002, Third Place Books is a general interest bookstore with over 200,000 new, used, and bargain books in Lake Forest Park and over 40,000 books in Ravenna.
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