73. Used Bookstores

Americans throw away 320 million books every year. How do some of them find a second life? Zachary Crockett is just browsing.  SOURCE:Francisco Hernandez, owner of Leaves bookstore. RESOURCES:"Reinventing Retail: The Novel Resurgence of Independent Bookstores," by Ryan L. Raffaelli (Harvard Business School Working Paper, 2020).Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon (1973).The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison (1970).Leaves bookstore. EXTRA:"Dying Is Easy. Retail Is Hard," by Freakonomics Radio (2024). Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.