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BookPeople
Independent bookstore and literary hub known for author events and decades of fierce local loyalty.
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About this audio guide
This guide to BookPeople in Austin follows CEO Steve Bercu's two thousand two fight against a national chain bookstore proposed to open across the street from his shop. It traces the email campaign he and Waterloo Records owner John Kunz launched, and the city incentives behind the development that Bercu said were subsidizing his own demise. Listen for the ritual of the bag check at the door, a decades-old BookPeople habit that predates the whole fight.
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