Indie bookselling tends to be romanticized as ‘cause work’ which is used to argue that booksellers should tolerate grossly low pay because it’s just so cool and fun to sell books! To be this wealthy and not invest in the workers who make that possible is actually not cool or fun.
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John Asbury
The Strand owner Nancy Bass-Wyden is reportedly worth more than $50 million and received $2.7 million in COVID loans. The Strand union said they are asking for $.50 raises.
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(Also see: my entire experience working unpaid as the founder of a feminist media non-profit, as well as underpaid, overworked, and -- in one case -- even harassed at media and activist non-profits before that.)