'Keeping Bookshops Open Makes Books Accessible and Keeps Reading Relevant'
"But what I think is beautiful is people open bookshops anyway, and it's always because those people really love books. Books are being generationally devalued, but they're actually one of the most precious resources in the world. 
We're all in the businesses of conservation, and keeping bookshops open makes books accessible and keeps reading relevant. The survival rate of bookshops is a real snapshot of our most creative, curious and hopeful society, so in terms of changing people's perspective about the world of books--would it even be too bold a claim to make that books really might be saving the world?"
--Katie Clapham, author of Receipts from the Bookshop and co-owner of Storytellers Inc. in St. Annes-on-Sea, Lancashire, U.K., in a q&a with author Julia Quinn (Bridgerton) in People magazine
