Andrew Laties is an American writer and bookseller born in Baltimore, Maryland.

Laties has written for a variety of websites[1][2] and magazines[3] He also maintains a personal blog.[4]

In 2005 Vox Pop published his IPPY Award-winning[5] book Rebel Bookseller: How To Improvise Your Own Indie Store And Beat Back The Chains.[6][7][8][9] Vox Pop was an independent publisher and a well-known local café in Brooklyn, New York[10][11][12][13] with which Laties was intimately involved.[14] As of September 8, 2010, however, Vox Pop was forced to close its doors.[15]

A second edition entitled Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Businesses Represent Everything You Want to Fight for—from Free Speech to Buying Local to Building Communities came out in July 2011 from Seven Stories Press.[16]

In addition to his writing, Laties has spoken on the current state of independent publishing.[17] Most recently he presented a lecture titled "Indie Bookstores Still Count: What We Can Do For Publishers, and What Publishers Can Do For Us" at the Digital Book World 2011 conference.[18]

Laties is the founding manager of the Eric Carle Museum Bookshop[19][20] in Amherst, Massachusetts. Previously, in Chicago, Illinois, Laties co-founded The Children's Bookstore (1985–1996),[21][22][23] which received the 1987 WNBA Pannell Award for Excellence in Children's Bookselling.[24] He then created The Children's Museum Store (1994–2002).[25]

Bibliography

  • Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Businesses Represent Everything You Want To Fight for, from Free Speech To Buying Local To Building Communities (2011)

References

  1. Fall of Autumn. Retrieved July 4, 2011.
  2. IndieBookMan. Archived August 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 04-30-2011.
  3. The Horn Book, 05-2011. Archived May 5, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 04-30-2011.
  4. Rebel Bookseller. Archived July 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved July 4, 2011.
  5. Independent Publisher, 05-2006. Retrieved 04-30-2011.
  6. Bookselling This Week, 08-23-2005. Retrieved 04-30-2011.
  7. Publishers Weekly, 05-30-2005. Retrieved 04-30-2011.
  8. Richmond Indymedia, 04-27-2006. Retrieved 04-30-2011.
  9. The Wall Street Journal, 05-18-2006. Retrieved 04-30-2011.
  10. The New York Times, 04-22-2007. Retrieved 04-30-2011.
  11. The Village Voice, 03-15-2005. Retrieved 04-30-2011.
  12. CNN, 07-09-2009. Archived March 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 04-30-2011.
  13. CNN, 07-10-2009. Retrieved 04-30-2011.
  14. The Village Voice, 05-16-2006. Retrieved July 4, 2011.
  15. Brooklyn Ink, 10-07-2010.[usurped] Retrieved January 5, 2011.
  16. "Rebel Bookseller (2011)". Archived from the original on July 11, 2011. Retrieved April 7, 2011.
  17. Frugal Marketing. Retrieved 04-30-2011.
  18. "My Day at Digital Book World", 01-26-2011. Retrieved July 4, 2011.
  19. Eric Carle Museum bookshop
  20. Parents Choice. Retrieved 04-30-2011.
  21. Chicago Sun-Times, 1-29-1995. Retrieved 04-30-2011.
  22. USA Today, 8-27-1990. Retrieved 04-30-2011.
  23. INC. Magazine, 10-1-1996. Retrieved 04-30-2011.
  24. Women's National Book Association. Archived July 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 04-30-2011.
  25. Chicago Tribune, 7-11-1999. Retrieved 04-30-2011.
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