Neon Tommy Pages Through LA's Surviving Bookstores

Kudos to Tasbeeh Herwees, senior writer at USC website Neon Tommy. The first few paragraphs of her article “The Last Bookshops of Los Angeles” offer a succinct snapshot of the seismic shift enveloping bricks-and-mortar literary merchants:

Mary Goodfader dreads a certain kind of customer. She can identify them when they pull out their Smartphones, snap photos of her “Staff Recommends” display – a selection of books curated by her employees – and leave without buying anything.

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