{"id":32835,"date":"2020-04-16T06:45:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T10:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=32835"},"modified":"2020-04-16T06:45:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T10:45:31","slug":"two-twos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=32835","title":{"rendered":"Two Twos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today we’ll do two twos. Two things I’m pretty sure are true and two things we’re doing at DDG to work around the closure of our selling floor.<\/p>\n\n\n

One true thing is that Allison Hill is the Winston Churchill of independent bookselling. It’s obvious that walking straight into the pandemic after taking over a giant job like being the new CEO of the American Booksellers Association would have overwhelmed most anyone. Allison is not overwhelmed. She is decisive, a great listener, and an authentic motivator who conveys both value and values to everyone she’s working with. <\/p>\n\n\n

A second true thing is that as much as bookstores are in dire trouble and looking for help from our publishing partners, publishers are not having a rosy walk in the park themselves. They are in fact under great strain. Collateral damage to publishers would be a wonderful side benefit for Amazon, whose ultimate goal of replacing a diverse marketplace with a single Amazon market has found a boon companion in the pandemic. Financial assistance from publishers needs to be done as collaboratively as possible therefore. We need each other. They are partners, not lifeguards.<\/p>\n\n\n

One thing we’re doing at the store is an idea I copied<\/a> from Cover to Cover Books. For many of us, store windows are now our only display space and the idea of providing what our customers are seeing there on a web page is a terrific one. Here is our version.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A second issue is having a store full of great non-book items but no easy means behind closed doors to get them into the homes of our customers. Pictures of stock on social media are great but I also just built this.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Take care, everyone. Time to get back to working myself to death…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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