I quit my well-paid job with one of the world's best-selling magazines to open a bookstore
This as-told-to article is based on an exchange between Tom Rowley, a former journalist who resigned as a reporter with The Economist to open a bookstore, andIt was an ordinary assignment, not unlike the thousands I had been given in my decade as a journalist.
Lots of kids love playing shop, but I took it to extremes. At about the age of seven, I turned my bedroom into a store called Pen & Paper, hawking stationery and newspaper supplements to every visitor to our house. I don't think it's a coincidence that the children of business owners often go on to set up shop themselves. I had seen first-hand the stresses and strains, the late nights hunched over spreadsheets and the family rows, of course.
I am also dreading opening my first energy bill. But I am buoyed by the knowledge that so many others share my feeling that bookshops are far more than just another stop on the high street.To readers they are places to treasure, to belong to, just like a local pub. Sure, you can get any book delivered to your door the next day, but those brown parcels can never replicate that feeling of community, of belonging.
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