Due to the changing landscape in the book world many booksellers have closed up shop recently but this story tops them all. Over 100 bookstalls were demolished in one fell swoop in the Koti area of Andhra Pradesh in southern India.
The government has built new stalls for the booksellers elsewhere and when the November 4 deadline to move came and went the demolition team showed up with many book stall owners still entrenched in their stalls
“The Koti book stalls besides being a landmark are popular among the students for availability of all kinds of secondhand books
Police resorted to lathi-charge to disperse the resisting book-stall owners and many of them were taken into custody”
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Wouldn’t it be something if we had this kind of solidarity among the secondhand booksellers in our country!
Welcome to the newly formed Bookseller Resisters League
We got a small glimpse of the possibilites when members of the ABAA boycotted ABE for a weekend a few months back in protest of ABE’s new credit card policies.
Although it was not very effective let’s call it the start of the new movement!
Interested in joining? Contact me and let the League begin!