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Valley Independent Bookstores Battle Corporate Cousins

One of the Valley’s successful independent bookstores, "Changing Hands," is in the process of raising money to open a second shop in Phoenix on Camelback Road.

Based on almost everything we have heard, brick and mortar bookstores are on their way out, but are independent bookstores different and in better shape than their corporate cousins?

Peter Osnos wrote a piece earlier this month for The Atlantic. It is called "How 'Indie' Bookstores Survived (and Thrived)." He is the founder and editor at large for PublicAffairs Books and joined us from New York.

Steve Goldstein was a host at KJZZ from 1997 to 2022.