The Future of Bookselling featuring Danny Caine and Rockstar Booksellers / Mackinac (5th floor)
Danny Caine is joined by interesting, creative, and progressive booksellers from right here in the Midwest. Books are provided by Microcosm to the first 150 attendees. Hot pretzel buffet. Cash bar.
5:30 PM - 6:30 PMThu
Danny Caine is back with a compelling case for the power of small, local businesses in How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling (September 2023, Microcosm Publishing). At once an urgent call to action and a sincere tribute to everything bookstores can do, Caine profiles of 13 of the most interesting, creative, and progressive bookstores of today, many of them from right here in the Midwest. A number of booksellers featured in the book will join Danny for a discussion of the future of bookselling. Attendees will engage with each other on the topic and crowdsource a vision of bookselling's future. Books are provided by Microcosm to the first 150 attendees and drinks will be served.