The Cheapest Bookstore in the World
The Cheapest Bookstore in the World How did bookselling develop from the preserve of the elite to the Amazon marketplace? It is due, in large part, to the actions of one man. Robert Greer | Published in 14 Mar 2017 Writing in his Memoirs of the First Forty-Five Years of the Life of James Lackington (published in 1792), Lackington, who began his working life as an illiterate shoemaker’s apprentice, explained why he had undertaken to transform the book industry: Thousands […] have been effectually prevented from purchasing (though anxious...
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