'Bittersweet' boom in business: Black-owned bookstores rush to meet demand

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Black-owned bookstores across the country are rushing to deal with an unprecedented and bittersweet surge of orders.

in Goose Creek, S.C., said she’d been waiting since June 4 for 400 copies of Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility” to arrive at the store. The shipment is scheduled to arrive this week, but in the meantime, she’s enjoyed recommending other genres of books to readers and referring them to alternative Black-owned bookstores when a specific text is out of stock.

“Bigger companies might get it to you faster, but they’re also making sure there aren’t any more Black-owned bookstores,” Lindo said. “It’s really kind of sad in a way and it can feel like you’re profiting off of tragedy, ” Garbo Hearne, owner of Pyramid Art, Books & Custom Framing in Little Rock, said. “I just hope people are actually reading the books they buy, not putting them aside on a shelf.”Courtesy of Garbo Hearne

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