How does a bookstore owner pay herself?
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How does a bookstore owner pay herself?
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How do you make a living when starting a business like a bookstore? Curious Cat Bookshop owner Stacy Whitman discusses the current state of our business, how she makes a living, how she started her first business (Tu Books, which became an imprint of Lee & Low Books), and the goals and considerations she makes as she makes business decisions for the bookstore.
If you'd like to know how many books a month we need to sell to break even, let alone make enough to come to the point of paying Stacy, stick around.
Now, obviously this is just Stacy speaking for herself, one person specifically in the United States, living in a specific state and a specific community, but we hope it might be useful to anyone asking similar questions.
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