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Inside The Last Bookstore

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Lesson 1

Choosing the bookstore's name

I chose the name the last bookstore because at the time Porter's was going out of business and a lot of other little bookstores were going out of business and it was just in the...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 2

Meet owner Josh Spencer

my name is Josh Spencer I own the last bookstore and I'm a father and a husband and a paraplegic before my injury I was really active you know I served and lifted weights and pl...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 3

Family life and reading

one daughter named Eden she's a handful it's just super smart she's already super creative and making a mess so I think she's just showing off how much she can eat she loves rea...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 4

Finding secondhand books

donations people selling books through the store we get a lot of inventory that way people's personal libraries and when they pass away or when they move when they're just downs...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 5

Unusual books and hidden covers

custom-made Kinkos dust jacket it's not even on that book it's on the the miracle cosmetic plastic surgery so they wanted somebody to think they were reading Harry Potter that w...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 6

A bookseller's career

work at Book Soup for 40 years before I came here it was a good place to work when I first started there they got bought by another company called bromans in Pasadena and it bec...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 7

From hardship to bookselling

like an Internet magazine covering film and music and that sort of tanked I tried to get a job a few places but nobody would really hire me and so I just I lived on welfare and...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 8

A refuge for the community

people's lives it's definitely become a refuge for a lot of people regardless of whether they like books or not it's a place they come and hang out some of them are huge book lo...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 9

Learning to face failure

of failure I've lost things in my life much more traumatic than a business there's not much that could compete with that Harrison you know I can deal with that I could certainly...

Language: enDuration: 1 min

Lesson 10

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