Americans throw away 320 million books every year. How do some of them find a second life? Zachary Crockett is just browsing.
SOURCE:
Francisco Hernandez, owner of Leaves bookstore.
RESOURCES:
"Reinventing Retail: The Novel Resurgence of Independent Bookstores," by Ryan L. Raffaelli (Harvard Business School Working Paper, 2020).
Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon (1973).
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison (1970).
EXTRA:
"Dying Is Easy. Retail Is Hard," by Freakonomics Radio (2024).
