{"id":2517,"date":"2013-11-25T14:06:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T19:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2013-11-29T10:36:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T15:36:21","slug":"holiday-shopping-at-the-harvard-bookstore-on-small-business-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2013\/11\/25\/holiday-shopping-at-the-harvard-bookstore-on-small-business-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Shopping at the Harvard Bookstore on Small Business Saturday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m following Sherman Alexie’s advice and making book recommendations on Small Business Saturday (November 30) at the Harvard Bookstore (1256 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge), from 4-6pm. \u00a0Come in, say hello, and start your holiday shopping with me and a few other local authors. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>SHERMAN ALEXIE<\/p>\n

September 1, 2013<\/p>\n

Hello, hello, you gorgeous book nerds,<\/p>\n

Now is the time to be a superhero for independent bookstores. I want all of us (you and you and especially you) to spend an amazing day hand-selling books at your local independent bookstore on Small Business Saturday (that’s the Saturday after Thanksgiving, November 30 this year, so you know it’s a huge weekend for everyone who, you know, wants to make a living).<\/p>\n

Here’s the plan: We book nerds will become booksellers. We will make recommendations. We will practice nepotism and urge readers to buy multiple copies of our friends’ books. Maybe you’ll sign and sell books of your own in the process. I think the collective results could be mind-boggling (maybe even world-changing).<\/p>\n

I was a bookseller-for-a-day at Seattle’s Queen Anne Book Company when it reopened this past April. Janis Segress, one of the new co-owners, came up with this brilliant idea. What could be better than spending a day hanging out in your favorite hometown indie, hand- selling books you love to people who will love them too and signing a stack of your own? Why not give it a try? Let\u2019s call it Indies First.<\/p>\n

Grassroots is my favorite kind of movement, and anyway there\u2019s not a lot of work involved in this one. Just pick a bookstore, talk to the owner (or answer the phone when they call you) and reach an agreement about how to spend your time that day. You\u2019d also need to agree to place that store\u2019s buy button in a prominent place on your website, above the Amazon button if you have one. After all, this is Indies First, not Indies Only, and it\u2019s designed to include Indies in our world but not to exclude anyone else.<\/p>\n

This is a great way to fight for independents\u2014one that will actually help them. It\u2019ll help you as well; the Indies I\u2019ve talked to have told me that last year Small Business Saturday was one of their biggest days of the year, in some cases the biggest after the Saturday before Christmas\u2014and that means your books will get a huge boost, wherever you choose to be.<\/p>\n

The most important thing is that we\u2019ll all be helping Independent bookstores, and God knows they\u2019ve helped us over the years. So join the Indie First Movement and help your favorite independent bookstore. Help all indie bookstores. Reach out to them and join the movement. Indies First!<\/p>\n

Yours in Independence,<\/p>\n

Sherman Alexie, An Absolutely True Part-Time Indie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I’m following Sherman Alexie’s advice and making book recommendations on Small Business Saturday (November 30) at the Harvard Bookstore (1256 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge), from 4-6pm. \u00a0Come in, say hello, and start your holiday shopping with me and a few other local authors. \u00a0 SHERMAN ALEXIE September 1, 2013 Hello, hello, you gorgeous book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2538,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions\/2538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}