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BOOKstore Economics

2026-04-10 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·40m 52s ·by NPR
BOOKstore Economics
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About this episode

How do bookstores choose the books they stock, and how does that affect what customers read? It may not seem like it, but every shelf in a bookstore is a highly valuable and contested piece of commercial real estate. And for every new book that a bookstore decides to stock, there are thousands of ot