Behind The Counter - Detroit Small Business
Source Booksellers
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:25:33
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Synopsis
In this episode of “Behind The Counter,” your host Andy Didorosi and co-host Annamarie Sysling go to Source Booksellers to talk with the shop’s owner Janet Webster Jones. In the 27 years that Source has been in business, Janet has gone from selling books at community events, to having an area in the shared retail space The Spiral Collective to finally having her own shop on Cass Avenue in the Auburn Building. Aside from the evolution of her non-fiction book business, Janet has also had a front-row seat in the transformation of Midtown. She remembers annual art fairs organized by Wayne State University, designed to encourage people to visit the area surrounding the campus. And, in the last 15 years, she says the work of Midtown Inc. has created a nest of retailers in the district; the kind of place she’s always wanted to have a business. “I like to think that bookstores in particular bring a special texture to a place,” says Janet, who considers book shops like hers, “an integral community gathering space,” wh