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There are "feminist bookstores"? And lots of them? How do they stay afloat? - being a regular bookstore is hard enough.
by killtimeatwork 5y ago
There are "feminist bookstores"? And lots of them? How do they stay afloat? - being a regular bookstore is hard enough.
- xiphias2 5y agoIt's much easier to have a great selection of feminist books than a great selection of books...good luck competing with the internet in the 2nd category. There was a documentary about specialist stores popping up in Berlin, and generalist stores dying.
- s5ma6n 5y agoI would confirm this as a resident of the aforementioned city. The specialist (or even many generalist) bookstores usually follow a certain ideology and sell books heavily aligned with those views. Unfortunately, this slowly converts those stores to echo chambers as the objectiveness of the stores slowly fade away.
- blip54321 5y agoOnly sometimes I used to live near an excellent technical book store which carried things like O'Reilly books. It went under as the Internet progressed. Many countries have such things like math book stores, or stores specializing in philosophy and similar humanities. Specialized book stores have a long, reputable history, and the echo chamber style specialization is a pretty recent phenomenon. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
- llampx 5y agoI wonder how the revenue in the book industry is split between men and women.
- killtimeatwork 5y agoI suspect that neither majority of men nor women are interested in feminist literature per se. Unless "feminist" mean "written by women" and not "in the spirit of feminist movement".
- akomtu 5y agoJust did a quick lookup. Looks like all books make 8 billions per year and Rowling's HP has made a bit under 8 billions total.
- garmaine 5y agoWith or without JK Rowling?
- abdullahkhalids 5y agoThere is an anarchist bookstore on Saint Laurent in Montreal, and has been for a long time. https://insoumise.wordpress.com/ https://insoumise.wordpress.com/ https://goo.gl/maps/NAZN9ctDrKcgU98k9 https://goo.gl/maps/NAZN9ctDrKcgU98k9
- stfu 5y agoProbably similar to the NYT subscriptions surge during the Trump administration. People just buying to signal and "support the cause". Partisan views have it a lot easier to raise money from their followers than those trying to find a middleground.
- ldehaan 5y agoGo to Boulder Colorado. It's so easy to spot sexism against men all over the place, including feminist bookstores that are there to make money off the rich bored people "culture wars".
- cvnlaa 5y agoDivorced women who live off their ex-husband's money (strong and independent!) have a lot of time and cash to explore their new identities.