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How Do You Measure a Bookstore’s Worth?

  • Amber Sparks

    • I live not too far from Politics and Prose. In my opinion, it’s the only really great bookstore left in DC. It’s also a neighborhood institution. Now its future is uncertain, due to the death of one of the owners and the possible sale of the store. There are a lot of people who love books here in DC–but will that save a bookstore?

    This article is an interesting look not just at my local bookstore, but at how, exactly, you measure a bookstore’s worth, and the complicated business behind the business of selling books in the digital age. Worth the read.

    • Amber Sparks's work has been featured or is forthcoming in various places, including New York Tyrant, Unsaid, Gargoyle, Annalemma and PANK. She is also the fiction editor at Emprise Review, and lives in Washington, DC with a husband and two beasts.

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