In a kind of picture to the editor in response to David Didriksen's letter yesterday, "Time for Publishers and Booksellers to Get Back to Basics," Sean Stewart, owner of Babylon Falling, the San Francisco, Calif., bookstore, sent photos of an event last Thursday for photographer Shawn Mortensen. At the opening reception of an exhibit of photography from his 2007 book Out of Mind (published by Harry N. Abrams), Mortensen gave a talk and signed books for a crowd of about 50.
Stewart wrote: "What prompted me to pass this on is that it speaks to the importance of bricks-and-mortar stores carrying and promoting backlist but also that we independent stores can put on successful events on backlist where a big chain would never even consider it."