His first store, in Marylebone, grew into a chain, and in 2011, he was appointed managing director of Waterstones in the hope that an independent bookseller’s playbook could resurrect the troubled chain. Whereas when I turned up, it was identical everywhere.”ĭaunt, 59, quit his job as an investment banker to launch Daunt Books in London in 1990. “This will be different from Fifth Avenue, which will be different from the Upper West Side, and we’re just talking about. “It doesn’t matter what table you’re looking at, you’re probably looking at a reasonably intelligent selection of books that feels appropriate for here,” Daunt says. Another table, labelled “BookTok”, displays books that have become viral hits thanks to TikTok’s powerful influencers. They’re just really nice spaces.”Īt Union Square, one section is dedicated to fiction and nonfiction about New York City. “Whereas bookstores are places of discovery.
“Amazon doesn’t care about books … a book is just another thing in a warehouse,” Daunt says. The aim is to offer something completely different from Amazon, where about half of all print books sold in the US are bought. “This is not what a bookseller looks like.”īarnes & Noble is the US’s largest remaining book chain but, under Daunt, each of the chain’s approximately 600 stores is meant to operate like an independent bookstore – unique and highly curated to fit a local community. “I’m not wearing my bookseller threads,” Daunt says with a laugh. They pay little attention to the soft-spoken man walking through the store in a grey suit. People popping in from a run flip through mysteries and romance paperbacks near the front, while backpack-wearing teens giggle excitedly in the young adult section on the second floor. Product Dimensions - 5.2 W x 7.9 H x 1.On a spring afternoon, the books seem to be successfully drawing a stream of browsers to the four-storey shop.Fans will love to return to this deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine-this time with never-before-published material.
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