The Bookstore at the End of the World, a Bookshop.org storefront launched in March by 15 New York City booksellers who were unemployed or underemployed due to the Covid-19 crisis, now includes 45 booksellers representing 15 shops from seven cities across the U.S., including Portland, Ore., Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Long Island and Mystic, Conn.
Bookstore at the End of the World has thus far sold more than 3,500 books, along with over 450 T-shirts, totaling more than $60,000 in sales. They have also prepared a pre-order list of some of the books they are looking forward to in the coming months.
"We didn't have years-in-the-making mailing lists, or social media accounts, or in-store events, or a monolithic online retailer backing us," the organizers noted. "We are together what we've always been separately: a well-read crew of booksellers making sure that the best of what we know is on offer to the many communities we call home."