We actually didn’t know it would be the perfect height for people’s heads to take a picture,” Straub, who owns the store Books Are Magic with her husband Michael Fusco-Straub, explained. The Books Are Magic mural is often tagged with both. Books Are Magic events often draw a packed house. And many of them are owned or operated by women, like Straub, with a passion for books and a post-modern way of meeting readers where they’re at. “Women are the future of book selling," Taylor Berry, the 31 year-old owner of Harbor Books in Sag Harbor, NY told me.

Source: Forbes March 07, 2018 19:29 UTC