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I have no idea if this is a workable business model, but David Kipen has opened a bookstore/lending library in Los Angeles:
To Boyle Heights locals, the store is a lending library curated by Kipen. To bibliophiles outside the neighborhood, it’s a used bookstore selling a great selection of titles at half the cover price. And to both, Kipen hopes, it’s a salon and a counterpart to the Corazon del Pueblo cultural center across the street.
Most of Libros Schmibros books are culled from Kipen’s sizeable personal library, built from his many years as a writer, book reviewer, and translator.
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Love this…the name, the concept, the whole sense of community. I hope it does well. Maybe the fact it’s so personal (his notes and all) will draw more readers in, rather than a row of pristine new (and expensive) books in another traditional setting.
I’ll check this place out tomorrow.
David brought me onto the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review a decade ago, years before he headed to NEA to be director of the National Reading Initiatives.
It’s good to see a chunk of his post-NEA life at Libros Schmibros. As he told the L.A. Times when asked about his plans: “I wouldn’t mind another nine months of government work, to get me across the five-year pension finish line, but California will always be home. Then again, the beauty part is a) that I left home a Californian, but I’m coming home an American, and b) that I’m coming home.”
Good luck, David!