Boy do I ever agree with this take on the survival of independant bookstores. I agree with it a lot. 
Please let all bookstores read this!! I’ve said it all before, but I WANT bookstores to survive. Yet, as Porter Anderson says elegantly in this piece (I’m crudely paraphrasing), bookstores can’t and won’t survive on charity and sympathy. No matter how much charity and sympathy I have towards them.
